Starbuck is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 1,405 people and just one neighborhood, Starbuck is the 370th largest community in Minnesota.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Starbuck is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Starbuck is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Starbuck who work in office and administrative support (17.19%), healthcare suport services (13.73%), and teaching (7.39%).
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Starbuck has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Starbuck has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Starbuck than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Starbuck may be for you.
Being a small city, Starbuck does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Starbuck is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.08% of adults 25 and older in Starbuck have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Starbuck in 2022 was $32,271, 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 $129,084 for a family of four. However, Starbuck contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Starbuck home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Starbuck residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Starbuck include Norwegian, German, Irish, English, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Starbuck is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.
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.
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 91.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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, 34.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 5.9% 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 Starbuck are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 10.3% 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 50.1% of America'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, 33.8% 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 25.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.8%), and 17.4% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 95.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 Starbuck, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (36.9%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (34.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.5%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (5.9%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.3%), 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 (37.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.0%) 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 (9.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.