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Norwood Young America - Hamburg, MN

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Overview


Norwood Young America - Hamburg is a somewhat small town located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 5,284 people and just one neighborhood, Norwood Young America - Hamburg is the 152nd largest community in Minnesota.

Occupations and Workforce

Norwood Young America - Hamburg is a blue-collar town, with 36.38% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Norwood Young America - Hamburg is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Norwood Young America - Hamburg who work in office and administrative support (13.30%), management occupations (8.65%), and sales jobs (8.31%).

Also of interest is that Norwood Young America - Hamburg has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

A relatively large number of people in Norwood Young America - Hamburg telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.21% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The population of Norwood Young America - Hamburg overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Norwood Young America - Hamburg, 23.41% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Norwood Young America - Hamburg in 2022 was $36,472, 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 $145,888 for a family of four. However, Norwood Young America - Hamburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Norwood Young America - Hamburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Norwood Young America - Hamburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Norwood Young America - Hamburg include German, Norwegian, English, Irish, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Norwood Young America - Hamburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 52.0% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 8.7% have Norwegian ancestry.

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 Norwood Young America - Hamburg are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.8% 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 53.8% 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, 35.3% 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 32.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.0%), and 14.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

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 94.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Italian and Polish.

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 Norwood Young America - Hamburg, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (52.0%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (8.7%), and residents who report English roots (8.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.9%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (5.6%), 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 (35.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.5%) 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 (8.6%) . 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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