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Fertile, MN

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Overview


Fertile is a tiny city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 792 people and just one neighborhood, Fertile is the 414th largest community in Minnesota. Fertile has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.

Occupations and Workforce

Fertile is a blue-collar town, with 43.45% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Fertile is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fertile who work in office and administrative support (14.21%), sales jobs (10.59%), and food service (7.52%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Fertile has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Fertile has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Fertile than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Fertile may be for you.

Fertile is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Fertile who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.16% of the adults in Fertile have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Fertile in 2022 was $31,995, 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 $127,980 for a family of four. However, Fertile contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Fertile home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fertile residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Fertile include Norwegian, German, Czech, Swedish, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in Fertile is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Fertile, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

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 97.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

Occupations

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 3.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

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, 42.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 7.5% have Swedish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Fertile are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 61.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.6% 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, 32.0% 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 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.9%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.7% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (3.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Fertile, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Norwegian (42.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (27.8%), and residents who report Swedish roots (7.5%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (7.4%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (4.0%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (75.9%) 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 (12.7%) and 5.8% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work 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.


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