Beaver Creek is a tiny city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 274 people and just one neighborhood, Beaver Creek is the 486th largest community in Minnesota.
Unlike some cities, Beaver Creek isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Beaver Creek are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Beaver Creek is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Beaver Creek who work in office and administrative support (18.62%), teaching (12.41%), and sales jobs (9.66%).
Of important note, Beaver Creek is also a city of artists. Beaver Creek has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Beaver Creek’s character.
Because of many things, Beaver Creek 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, Beaver Creek really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Beaver Creek 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.
Beaver Creek 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 terms of college education, Beaver Creek is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 25.99% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Beaver Creek in 2022 was $37,437, which is upper middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $149,748 for a family of four.
The people who call Beaver Creek home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Beaver Creek residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Beaver Creek include German, Dutch, Norwegian, Irish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Beaver Creek is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 Beaver Creek, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 4.3% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 33.8% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.4% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 5.7% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Minnesota. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 30.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 15.3% have Norwegian ancestry.
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 Beaver Creek are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 61.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.0% of U.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, 38.0% 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 23.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.7%), and 14.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.1%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Beaver Creek, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (38.0%). There are also a number of people of Dutch ancestry (30.2%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (15.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.4%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.3%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (72.1%) 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 (9.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.