Madelia is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 2,369 people and just one neighborhood, Madelia is the 286th largest community in Minnesota. Much of the housing stock in Madelia was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
When you are in Madelia, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.26% of Madelia’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Madelia is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Madelia who work in office and administrative support (13.68%), sales jobs (8.38%), and healthcare (6.88%).
In terms of college education, Madelia is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.17% of adults 25 and older in Madelia have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Madelia in 2022 was $33,460, which is middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $133,840 for a family of four. However, Madelia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Madelia is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Madelia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Madelia residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Madelia also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 29.00% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Madelia include German, Norwegian, Swedish, Irish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Madelia is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.
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.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.0% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 24 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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, 20.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 7.5% have Swedish 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 Madelia are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 56.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.3% 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 55.1% of America'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, 33.3% 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 30.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.2%), and 16.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 85.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (12.9%).
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 Madelia, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (38.8%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (20.4%), and residents who report Mexican roots (16.8%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (7.5%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (7.3%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (81.4%) 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 (8.3%) and 5.4% 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.