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Grasston, MN

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Overview


Grasston is a tiny city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 157 people and just one neighborhood, Grasston is the 510th largest community in Minnesota. Much of the housing stock in Grasston was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Grasston economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Grasston, where the median household income is $90,417.00.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Grasston, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.86% of Grasston’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Grasston is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Grasston who work in office and administrative support (16.07%), sales jobs (8.93%), and teaching (7.14%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Grasston is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Grasston a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The city’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Grasston has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Grasston’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Grasston is worth considering.

One downside of living in Grasston, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 40.63 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small city, Grasston does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Grasston are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.67% of adults in Grasston have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Grasston in 2018 was $37,021, which is middle income relative to Minnesota, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $148,084 for a family of four. However, Grasston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Grasston home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Grasston residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Grasston include German, Norwegian, Swedish, Irish, and French Canadian.

The most common language spoken in Grasston is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 40 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.9% of America.

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 14.4% 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 Swedish and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 15.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 11.0% have Norwegian 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 Grasston are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 54.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.5% 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 63.1% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 36.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.6%), and 13.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.2% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.9%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Grasston, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.8%). There are also a number of people of Swedish ancestry (15.9%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (11.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.0%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.4%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (10.9%) . 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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