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Watkins, MN

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Overview


Watkins is a tiny city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 1,026 people and just one neighborhood, Watkins is the 398th largest community in Minnesota.

Occupations and Workforce

Watkins is a blue-collar town, with 43.96% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Watkins is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Watkins who work in office and administrative support (12.76%), healthcare suport services (9.57%), and sales jobs (6.15%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Watkins 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 Watkins has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.19% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Watkins in 2018 was $28,111, 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 $112,444 for a family of four. However, Watkins contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Watkins is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Watkins home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Watkins residents report their race to be White. Watkins also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.09% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Watkins include German, Norwegian, Irish, Polish, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Watkins 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 Watkins, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 36 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.7% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 47.9% have German 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 Watkins are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.7% 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 76.6% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 34.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 34.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.5%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.7% of households.

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 Watkins, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (47.9%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report Swedish roots (9.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.9%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (5.2%), 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 (31.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (77.7%) 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 (12.3%) . 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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