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Taylors Falls - Shafer, MN

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Overview


Taylors Falls - Shafer is a very small town located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 4,239 people and just one neighborhood, Taylors Falls - Shafer is the 180th largest community in Minnesota.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Taylors Falls - Shafer isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Taylors Falls - Shafer are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Taylors Falls - Shafer is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Taylors Falls - Shafer who work in office and administrative support (9.94%), management occupations (9.76%), and sales jobs (7.57%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.63% 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

Taylors Falls - Shafer 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 town’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, Taylors Falls - Shafer’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

One downside of living in Taylors Falls - Shafer, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.48 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

The citizens of Taylors Falls - Shafer are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.12% of adults in Taylors Falls - Shafer having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Taylors Falls - Shafer in 2018 was $35,971, which is upper middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $143,884 for a family of four. However, Taylors Falls - Shafer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Taylors Falls - Shafer home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Taylors Falls - Shafer residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Taylors Falls - Shafer include German, Swedish, Irish, Norwegian, and English.

The most common language spoken in Taylors Falls - Shafer is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Taylors Falls - Shafer, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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, 16.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 12.8% 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 Taylors Falls - Shafer are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 70.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.1% 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 61.7% 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, 32.0% 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 31.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.7%), and 13.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% of households.

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 Taylors Falls - Shafer, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.3%). There are also a number of people of Swedish ancestry (16.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.9%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (12.8%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.9%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (34.4% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (77.4%) 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 (10.8%) . 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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