St. Cloud is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in St. Cloud enrolled in college, St. Cloud has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.
Not only is St. Cloud a city with many college students, but it also retains many recent graduates who are looking to start new careers, creating a decent-sized population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile. This makes it a good choice for other relocating single professionals. Here, these young singles will find many others like themselves, with opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.
The overall education level of St. Cloud citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 30.03% of adults in St. Cloud have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.
The per capita income in St. Cloud in 2018 was $28,896, which is lower middle income relative to Minnesota, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $115,584 for a family of four. However, St. Cloud contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
St. Cloud is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call St. Cloud home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of St. Cloud residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in St. Cloud include German, Norwegian, Irish, Somalian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in St. Cloud is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Spanish.
