South Haven’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) South Haven has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. South Haven has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in South Haven than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, South Haven may be for you.
One downside of living in South Haven is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In South Haven, the average commute to work is 30.23 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
South Haven 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.
In South Haven, just 9.86% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in South Haven in 2022 was $36,768, which is middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $147,072 for a family of four. However, South Haven contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call South Haven home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of South Haven residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in South Haven include German, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in South Haven is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.
