Alexander is a tiny city located in the state of North Dakota. With a population of 299 people and just one neighborhood, Alexander is the 108th largest community in North Dakota. Alexander has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Alexander, where the median household income is $85,833.00.
Alexander real estate is some of the most expensive in North Dakota, although Alexander house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
When you are in Alexander, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.74% of Alexander’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Alexander is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Alexander who work in office and administrative support (14.91%), sales jobs (11.40%), and business and financial occupations (9.65%).
Of important note, Alexander is also a city of artists. Alexander has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Alexander’s character.
Alexander’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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, Alexander has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Alexander a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Alexander, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 41.94 minutes every day commuting to work. However, local public transit is widely used. For those who would prefer to avoid driving entirely and leave their car at home, it may be an option to use the transit instead.
Even though Alexander is a smaller city, it has many people who hop on public transportation – mostly taxis for their daily commute to work. Typically, these people are commuting to good jobs in the surrounding cities.
In terms of college education, Alexander ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.76% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Alexander in 2022 was $31,845, which is low income relative to North Dakota, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $127,380 for a family of four. However, Alexander contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Alexander home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Alexander residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Alexander include German, Norwegian, Irish, Russian, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Alexander is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
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 99.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.0% of all neighborhoods in America, with 32.6% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Austrian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 27.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 1.7% have Austrian 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 Alexander are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.1% 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 78.3% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 42.3% 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 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.3%), and 9.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% 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 Alexander, ND, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Norwegian (27.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (21.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.5%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (3.0%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (8.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.