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Pine River, MN

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Overview


Pine River is a tiny city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 931 people and just one neighborhood, Pine River is the 404th largest community in Minnesota.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Pine River is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pine River is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Pine River who work in food service (17.88%), sales jobs (16.88%), and healthcare suport services (14.61%).

Setting & Lifestyle

As is often the case in a small city, Pine River doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Pine River rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.01% of adults 25 and older in Pine River 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 Pine River in 2022 was $24,020, which is low income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $96,080 for a family of four.

The people who call Pine River home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pine River residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Pine River include German, Norwegian, Irish, Swedish, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Pine River is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

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 14 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.2% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 14.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 6.9% have Swedish 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 Pine River are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 10.1% 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 50.5% of America'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, 28.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 26.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.3%), and 19.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.7%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Pine River, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.7%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (14.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.1%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (6.9%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.4%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (71.3%) 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 (13.8%) . 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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