Ellsworth - Round Lake is a very small town located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 2,297 people and just one neighborhood, Ellsworth - Round Lake is the 293rd largest community in Minnesota. Ellsworth - Round Lake has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
When you are in Ellsworth - Round Lake, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.58% of Ellsworth - Round Lake’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Ellsworth - Round Lake is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ellsworth - Round Lake who work in management occupations (12.47%), office and administrative support (8.86%), and farm management occupations (6.79%).
A relatively large number of people in Ellsworth - Round Lake telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.13% 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, Ellsworth - Round Lake is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Ellsworth - Round Lake 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, Ellsworth - Round Lake has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Ellsworth - Round Lake’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
In terms of college education, Ellsworth - Round Lake is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.65% of adults 25 and older in Ellsworth - Round Lake have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Ellsworth - Round Lake in 2022 was $35,786, which is middle income relative to Minnesota, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $143,144 for a family of four. However, Ellsworth - Round Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Ellsworth - Round Lake is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ellsworth - Round Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ellsworth - Round Lake residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ellsworth - Round Lake include German, Dutch, Norwegian, English, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Ellsworth - Round Lake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 6.8% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 96.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 12.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 44.8% have German 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 Ellsworth - Round Lake are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.5% 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 66.4% of America'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, 34.0% 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 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.8%), and 11.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (8.4%).
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 Ellsworth - Round Lake, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (44.8%). There are also a number of people of Dutch ancestry (12.9%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (6.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.7%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (5.6%), 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 (39.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (75.2%) 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 (11.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.