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Wood Lake - Echo, MN

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Overview


Wood Lake - Echo is a very small town located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 1,857 people and just one neighborhood, Wood Lake - Echo is the 326th largest community in Minnesota. Much of the housing stock in Wood Lake - Echo was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Wood Lake - Echo is a blue-collar town, with 37.35% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Wood Lake - Echo is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wood Lake - Echo who work in management occupations (12.51%), office and administrative support (11.51%), and sales jobs (7.98%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Wood Lake - Echo is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Wood Lake - Echo really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Wood Lake - Echo perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Demographics

The citizens of Wood Lake - Echo are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.46% of adults in Wood Lake - Echo have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Wood Lake - Echo in 2018 was $37,282, 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 $149,128 for a family of four. However, Wood Lake - Echo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Wood Lake - Echo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wood Lake - Echo residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Wood Lake - Echo include German, Norwegian, Irish, Belgian, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Wood Lake - Echo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Miao/Hmong.

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 Wood Lake - Echo, 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 10 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.0% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 29.8% have Norwegian ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Wood Lake - Echo are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.5% 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 54.4% 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.3%), and 15.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.9%).

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 Wood Lake - Echo, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (48.4%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (29.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.9%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.5%), along with some Belgian ancestry residents (4.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.0%) 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 (6.7%) . 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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