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Nicollet, MN

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Overview


Nicollet is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 1,139 people and just one neighborhood, Nicollet is the 387th largest community in Minnesota.

Occupations and Workforce

Nicollet is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Nicollet is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Nicollet who work in office and administrative support (11.33%), food service (7.19%), and sales jobs (6.30%).

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

A relatively large number of people in Nicollet telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.82% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

As is often the case in a small city, Nicollet doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Nicollet with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.76% of adults in Nicollet have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Nicollet in 2018 was $34,318, which is middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $137,272 for a family of four. However, Nicollet contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Nicollet is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 93.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 50.3% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 3.2% have Welsh ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Nicollet are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 75.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.6% of U.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, 39.2% 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 23.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.4%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% 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 Nicollet, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (50.3%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (5.1%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.5%), 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 (49.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.5%) 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 (7.1%) . 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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