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Pine Island, MN

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Overview


Pine Island is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 3,864 people and just one neighborhood, Pine Island is the 196th largest community in Minnesota. Pine Island has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Pine Island, where the median household income is $74,844.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Pine Island isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Pine Island are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pine Island is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pine Island who work in healthcare (16.90%), office and administrative support (9.32%), and management occupations (8.13%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Pine Island is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The population of Pine Island is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 37.40% of adults in Pine Island have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Pine Island in 2018 was $32,947, 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 $131,788 for a family of four. However, Pine Island contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Pine Island is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 25.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 1.8% have Danish 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 Pine Island are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 66.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.3% 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 74.5% of America's neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 36.4% 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 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.6%), and 16.8% 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 99.0% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.6%).

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 Pine Island, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.3%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (25.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.2%) 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 (5.6%) . 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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