Howard Lake is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 2,186 people and just one neighborhood, Howard Lake is the 309th largest community in Minnesota.
Unlike some cities, Howard Lake isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Howard Lake are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Howard Lake is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Howard Lake who work in office and administrative support (18.08%), sales jobs (9.04%), and healthcare suport services (8.06%).
A relatively large number of people in Howard Lake telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.02% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Howard Lake’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Howard Lake has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Howard Lake a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small city, Howard Lake does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Howard Lake rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.60% of adults 25 and older in Howard Lake have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Howard Lake in 2022 was $39,422, which is upper middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $157,688 for a family of four. However, Howard Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Howard Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Howard Lake residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Howard Lake include German, Swedish, Irish, English, and Finnish.
The most common language spoken in Howard Lake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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, 4.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 10.2% have Swedish 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 Howard Lake are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 71.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 52.5% 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, 32.2% 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 31.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.1%), and 16.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.7% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Howard Lake, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (45.6%). There are also a number of people of Swedish ancestry (10.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (6.7%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.3%), 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 (33.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.5%) 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 (7.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.