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Taylors Falls - Shafer, MN

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Overview


Taylors Falls - Shafer is a very small town located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 4,239 people and just one neighborhood, Taylors Falls - Shafer is the 180th largest community in Minnesota.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Taylors Falls - Shafer is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Taylors Falls - Shafer is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Taylors Falls - Shafer who work in management occupations (10.19%), office and administrative support (8.76%), and sales jobs (7.92%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.02% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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

One downside of living in Taylors Falls - Shafer is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Taylors Falls - Shafer, the average commute to work is 34.05 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Demographics

The education level of Taylors Falls - Shafer citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.25% of adults in Taylors Falls - Shafer have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Taylors Falls - Shafer in 2022 was $38,855, which is upper middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $155,420 for a family of four. However, Taylors Falls - Shafer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Taylors Falls - Shafer is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Taylors Falls - Shafer home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Taylors Falls - Shafer residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Taylors Falls - Shafer include German, Swedish, Norwegian, Irish, and English.

The most common language spoken in Taylors Falls - Shafer is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Laotian.

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

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 15.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 11.7% 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 Taylors Falls - Shafer are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 70.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.0% 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 68.0% 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, 31.9% 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 31.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.5%), and 12.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.1% of households.

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 Taylors Falls - Shafer, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.4%). There are also a number of people of Swedish ancestry (15.0%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (11.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (10.5%), along with some English ancestry residents (8.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (32.7% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (75.6%) 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 (11.9%) . 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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