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Sacred Heart, MN

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Overview


Sacred Heart is a tiny city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 490 people and just one neighborhood, Sacred Heart is the 450th largest community in Minnesota. Much of the housing stock in Sacred Heart was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Sacred Heart, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 43.81% of Sacred Heart’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Sacred Heart is a city of professionals, managers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sacred Heart who work in business and financial occupations (11.50%), management occupations (8.85%), and teaching (8.41%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Sacred Heart has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Sacred Heart a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

As is often the case in a small city, Sacred Heart doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Sacred Heart with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.25% of adults in Sacred Heart have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Sacred Heart in 2022 was $30,793, which is lower middle income relative to Minnesota, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $123,172 for a family of four. However, Sacred Heart contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Sacred Heart home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sacred Heart residents report their race to be White. Sacred Heart also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.72% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Sacred Heart include German, Norwegian, Irish, Scandinavian, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Sacred Heart is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Scandinavian languages.

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.

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 97.5% of the neighborhoods in America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Diversity

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, 32.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 8.7% have Swedish ancestry.

Migration / Stability

The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 96.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.

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 Sacred Heart are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 44.5% 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 27.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (13.9%), and 12.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.3%).

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 Sacred Heart, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (44.4%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (32.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.4%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (8.7%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (5.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (75.7%) 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 (7.7%) . 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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