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Alexander, ND

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Overview


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. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Alexander, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Alexander, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Alexander’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Alexander does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because 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.

Occupations and Workforce

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.

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Alexander is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

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.

In Alexander, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 41.94 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. One bright side is that local public transit is widely used, so it may be an option to avoid the headache of driving in the heavy traffic by leaving the car at home and taking transit.

In Alexander, a lot of people use taxis to get to work every day though Alexander is a relatively small city. Those that ride taxis are primarily traveling out of town to good jobs in other cities.

Demographics

The population of Alexander has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.76% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

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.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

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 2 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 99.1% of 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.

Diversity

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.

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 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.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 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.

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 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.


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