Coleraine is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 1,989 people and just one neighborhood, Coleraine is the 315th largest community in Minnesota.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Coleraine is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Coleraine is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Coleraine who work in sales jobs (13.05%), office and administrative support (12.01%), and teaching (9.24%).
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!) Coleraine 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. Coleraine has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Coleraine than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Coleraine may be for you.
Coleraine 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.
The education level of Coleraine citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.70% of adults in Coleraine have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Coleraine in 2022 was $30,873, 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 $123,492 for a family of four. However, Coleraine contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Coleraine home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Coleraine residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Coleraine include German, Norwegian, Irish, Swedish, and Finnish.
The most common language spoken in Coleraine is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 10.4% have Swedish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Coleraine are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 35.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 26.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.1%), and 14.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Coleraine, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.1%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (13.9%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (10.4%), along with some Finnish ancestry residents (8.8%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.0%) 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 (11.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.