Walnut Grove - Vesta is a very small town located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 2,646 people and just one neighborhood, Walnut Grove - Vesta is the 269th largest community in Minnesota. Walnut Grove - Vesta has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Walnut Grove - Vesta is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Walnut Grove - Vesta is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Walnut Grove - Vesta who work in management occupations (16.40%), office and administrative support (10.88%), and sales jobs (7.05%).
A relatively large number of people in Walnut Grove - Vesta telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.00% 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.
Because of many things, Walnut Grove - Vesta 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, Walnut Grove - Vesta really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Walnut Grove - Vesta 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.
Walnut Grove - Vesta is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Walnut Grove - Vesta who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.98% of the adults in Walnut Grove - Vesta have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Walnut Grove - Vesta in 2022 was $31,561, 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 $126,244 for a family of four. However, Walnut Grove - Vesta contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Walnut Grove - Vesta is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Walnut Grove - Vesta home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Walnut Grove - Vesta residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Walnut Grove - Vesta include German, Norwegian, Belgian, Irish, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Walnut Grove - Vesta is English. Other important languages spoken here include Miao/Hmong 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 Walnut Grove - Vesta, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 11 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 95.6% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 9.5% 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 Walnut Grove - Vesta are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.2% 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, 36.0% 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 27.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.1%), and 15.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.6% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.6%).
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 Walnut Grove - Vesta, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (36.9%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (9.5%), and some of the residents are also of Belgian ancestry (5.9%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (5.1%), 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 (34.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (75.6%) 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 (7.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.