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Montrose, MN

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Overview


Montrose is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 3,918 people and just one neighborhood, Montrose is the 194th largest community in Minnesota. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Montrose, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Montrose, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Montrose’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Montrose does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $80,845.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Montrose is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Montrose is a city of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Montrose who work in office and administrative support (14.36%), sales jobs (8.56%), and management occupations (8.51%).

Also of interest is that Montrose has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Montrose is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The city’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Montrose’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

One downside of living in Montrose is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Montrose, the average commute to work is 36.42 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Demographics

The education level of Montrose citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.88% of adults in Montrose have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Montrose in 2018 was $30,556, which is lower middle income relative to Minnesota, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $122,224 for a family of four. However, Montrose contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Montrose home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Montrose residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Montrose include German, Norwegian, Irish, English, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Montrose is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Scandinavian languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 44.2% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.1% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

People

If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 10.5% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Minnesota. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 39.0% have German ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Montrose are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.1% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 68.1% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 38.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 32.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.1%), and 13.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Montrose, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (39.0%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (12.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.1%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (8.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (5.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (76.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also ride the bus to get to work (5.5%) and 5.1% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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