Wabasha is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 2,592 people and just one neighborhood, Wabasha is the 276th largest community in Minnesota. Wabasha has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.
Wabasha is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 86.09% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Wabasha is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wabasha who work in management occupations (18.57%), office and administrative support (15.76%), and healthcare (11.62%).
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, Wabasha has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Wabasha a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
The education level of Wabasha citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.54% of adults in Wabasha have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Wabasha in 2022 was $41,276, which is upper middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $165,104 for a family of four. However, Wabasha contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Wabasha home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wabasha residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Wabasha include German, Irish, Norwegian, English, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Wabasha is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Wabasha, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.7%) living in the neighborhood.
In addition, if you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Wabasha is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in MN, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 86.2% of the neighborhoods in Minnesota. If you are considering retiring to Minnesota, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 56.2% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 1.7% have Belgian 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 Wabasha are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 5.8% 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 62.2% 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, 40.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.3%), and 13.1% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.3%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Wabasha, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (56.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (19.7%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.0%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (5.3%), 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 (50.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.5%) 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 (9.9%) and 5.3% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.