Blooming Prairie - Ellendale is a very small town located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 3,576 people and just one neighborhood, Blooming Prairie - Ellendale is the 204th largest community in Minnesota. Blooming Prairie - Ellendale has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Blooming Prairie - Ellendale is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Blooming Prairie - Ellendale is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Blooming Prairie - Ellendale who work in management occupations (9.90%), sales jobs (9.04%), and office and administrative support (8.83%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.72% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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, Blooming Prairie - Ellendale is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Blooming Prairie - Ellendale a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Blooming Prairie - Ellendale has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Blooming Prairie - Ellendale’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
The education level of Blooming Prairie - Ellendale citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.20% of adults in Blooming Prairie - Ellendale have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Blooming Prairie - Ellendale in 2022 was $33,328, 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 $133,312 for a family of four. However, Blooming Prairie - Ellendale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Blooming Prairie - Ellendale is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Blooming Prairie - Ellendale home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Blooming Prairie - Ellendale residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Blooming Prairie - Ellendale also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.04% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Blooming Prairie - Ellendale include German, Norwegian, Irish, Czech, and English.
The most common language spoken in Blooming Prairie - Ellendale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Blooming Prairie - Ellendale, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 4.3% have Danish ancestry.
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 Blooming Prairie - Ellendale are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.0% 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, 33.6% 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 25.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.7%), and 14.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (7.2%).
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 Blooming Prairie - Ellendale, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (34.0%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (22.1%), and residents who report Mexican roots (11.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (10.2%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.9%), among others.
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 (39.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (8.6%) and 5.3% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.