Sturgeon Lake - Willow River is a very small town located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 3,046 people and just one neighborhood, Sturgeon Lake - Willow River is the 244th largest community in Minnesota.
Sturgeon Lake - Willow River is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Sturgeon Lake - Willow River is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sturgeon Lake - Willow River who work in healthcare (10.12%), office and administrative support (9.76%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (9.24%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.90% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
As is often the case in a small town, Sturgeon Lake - Willow River doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Sturgeon Lake - Willow River are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.12% of adults in Sturgeon Lake - Willow River have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Sturgeon Lake - Willow River in 2022 was $33,302, 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 $133,208 for a family of four. However, Sturgeon Lake - Willow River contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Sturgeon Lake - Willow River home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sturgeon Lake - Willow River residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sturgeon Lake - Willow River include German, Polish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Sturgeon Lake - Willow River is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 Sturgeon Lake - Willow River, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Of particular note, 6.0% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 33.7%, which is higher than 96.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 20 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.8% of America.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 95.8% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 10.5% have Swedish ancestry.
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 Sturgeon Lake - Willow River are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.4% 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 63.5% 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, 31.7% 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 27.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.2%), and 14.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% of households.
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 Sturgeon Lake - Willow River, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.8%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (14.7%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (12.1%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (10.5%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (9.3%), among others.
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 (31.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (70.6%) 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 (17.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.