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Spring Park, MN

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Overview


Spring Park is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 416 people and just one neighborhood, Spring Park is the 342nd largest community in Minnesota.

Spring Park home prices are not only among the most expensive in Minnesota, but Spring Park real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Spring Park is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Spring Park is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Spring Park who work in healthcare suport services (17.00%), food service (16.09%), and sales jobs (12.25%).

Also of interest is that Spring Park has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The overall education level of Spring Park citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 29.24% of adults in Spring Park have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.

The per capita income in Spring Park in 2018 was $52,346, which is wealthy relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $209,384 for a family of four. However, Spring Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Spring Park is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Spring Park home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Spring Park residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Spring Park include German, Norwegian, Swedish, English, and European.

The most common language spoken in Spring Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Vietnamese.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

People

If you are planning to retire in Minnesota, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Minnesota, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 96.1% of neighborhoods in MN. If a Minnesota retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 13.8% have Norwegian ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Spring Park are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.6% 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, 40.2% 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 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.2%), and 14.3% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.1% of households.

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 Spring Park, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.2%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (13.8%), and residents who report English roots (12.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (10.1%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (9.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (73.4%) 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 (5.7%) . 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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