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Norwood Young America - Hamburg, MN

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Overview


Norwood Young America - Hamburg is a somewhat small town located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 5,284 people and just one neighborhood, Norwood Young America - Hamburg is the 152nd largest community in Minnesota.

Occupations and Workforce

Norwood Young America - Hamburg is a blue-collar town, with 36.47% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Norwood Young America - Hamburg is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Norwood Young America - Hamburg who work in office and administrative support (10.39%), sales jobs (10.17%), and management occupations (8.67%).

Also of interest is that Norwood Young America - Hamburg has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.22% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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

One downside of living in Norwood Young America - Hamburg is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Norwood Young America - Hamburg, the average commute to work is 30.87 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Demographics

The education level of Norwood Young America - Hamburg citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.88% of adults in Norwood Young America - Hamburg have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Norwood Young America - Hamburg in 2018 was $33,443, 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 $133,772 for a family of four. However, Norwood Young America - Hamburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Norwood Young America - Hamburg is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Norwood Young America - Hamburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Norwood Young America - Hamburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Norwood Young America - Hamburg include German, Norwegian, English, Irish, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Norwood Young America - Hamburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 52.2% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 8.1% 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 Norwood Young America - Hamburg are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.4% 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 70.5% 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, 34.9% 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 30.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.1%), and 15.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Italian and Polish.

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 Norwood Young America - Hamburg, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (52.2%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (8.1%), and residents who report English roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.7%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.7%), 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 (33.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (77.9%) 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 (9.9%) . 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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