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Sleepy Eye, MN

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Overview


Sleepy Eye is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 3,417 people and just one neighborhood, Sleepy Eye is the 215th largest community in Minnesota.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Sleepy Eye isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Sleepy Eye are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sleepy Eye is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sleepy Eye who work in management occupations (12.62%), sales jobs (10.15%), and office and administrative support (8.61%).

Of important note, Sleepy Eye is also a city of artists. Sleepy Eye has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Sleepy Eye’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Sleepy Eye is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Sleepy Eye spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 17.49 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Sleepy Eye who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.86% of the adults in Sleepy Eye have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Sleepy Eye in 2018 was $35,170, 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 $140,680 for a family of four. However, Sleepy Eye contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Sleepy Eye is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Sleepy Eye home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sleepy Eye residents report their race to be White. Sleepy Eye also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.70% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Sleepy Eye include German, Norwegian, Irish, Czech, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Sleepy Eye is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 89.5% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 95.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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, 52.3% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 12.0% 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 Sleepy Eye are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.6% 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 51.8% 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, 33.9% 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 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.5%), and 15.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (11.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Sleepy Eye, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (52.3%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (16.0%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (12.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.9%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (4.1%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (56.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (89.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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