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Wood Lake - Echo, MN

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Overview


Wood Lake - Echo is a very small town located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 1,857 people and just one neighborhood, Wood Lake - Echo is the 326th largest community in Minnesota. Wood Lake - Echo has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Wood Lake - Echo, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.35% of Wood Lake - Echo’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Wood Lake - Echo is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wood Lake - Echo who work in management occupations (12.51%), office and administrative support (11.51%), and sales jobs (7.98%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Wood Lake - Echo is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Wood Lake - Echo’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Wood Lake - Echo with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.46% of adults in Wood Lake - Echo have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Wood Lake - Echo in 2022 was $37,282, 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 $149,128 for a family of four. However, Wood Lake - Echo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Wood Lake - Echo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Miao/Hmong.

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

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 10 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 29.8% have Norwegian ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Wood Lake - Echo are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.5% 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 54.4% 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, 34.6% 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.3%), and 15.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.9%).

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 Wood Lake - Echo, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (48.4%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (29.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.9%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.5%), along with some Belgian ancestry residents (4.2%), 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 (34.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.0%) 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 (6.7%) . 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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