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Hillman, MN

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Overview


Hillman is a tiny city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 22 people and just one neighborhood, Hillman is the 531st largest community in Minnesota. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Hillman, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Hillman, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Hillman’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Hillman does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $66,250.00.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Hillman, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.45% of Hillman’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Hillman is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Hillman who work in office and administrative support (18.18%), maintenance occupations (9.09%), and teaching (9.09%).

You will also find that a lot of people in Hillman work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Hillman is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

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!) Hillman 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. Hillman has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hillman than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hillman may be for you.

In Hillman, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.68 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Hillman is very much a car-oriented city. This is because the population of Hillman isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Hillman 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

In Hillman, just 6.67% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Hillman in 2022 was $26,665, 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 $106,660 for a family of four. However, Hillman contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 96.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 54.6% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 20.3% have Polish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 17.6% 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 99.6% 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 Hillman are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.1% 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, 35.8% 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 32.8% 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 12.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Hillman, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (54.6%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (20.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.6%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (5.7%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (4.9%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (26.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (76.5%) 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 (8.9%) . 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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