Badger is a tiny city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 426 people and just one neighborhood, Badger is the 462nd largest community in Minnesota.
When you are in Badger, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 54.55% of Badger’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Badger is a city of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Badger who work in sales jobs (9.09%), office and administrative support (7.27%), and healthcare suport services (5.91%).
Overall, Badger’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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, Badger has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Badger a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small city, Badger doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The rate of college-level education in Badger is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.45% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Badger in 2022 was $25,747, which is low income relative to Minnesota, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $102,988 for a family of four. However, Badger contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Badger home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Badger residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Badger include Norwegian, German, Scandinavian, Swedish, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Badger is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Other Indo-European.
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.
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 4 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.5% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
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, 32.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 12.1% have Swedish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Badger are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 39.0% 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 33.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.9%), and 10.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.3% of households. Some people also speak Polish (6.9%).
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 Badger, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Norwegian (32.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (21.8%), and residents who report Swedish roots (12.1%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (5.1%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (4.9%), 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 (77.0%) 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 (12.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.