Fort Totten - Minnewaukan is a very small town located in the state of North Dakota. With a population of 2,056 people and just one neighborhood, Fort Totten - Minnewaukan is the 48th largest community in North Dakota.
Unlike some towns, Fort Totten - Minnewaukan isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Fort Totten - Minnewaukan are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Fort Totten - Minnewaukan is a town of service providers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fort Totten - Minnewaukan who work in teaching (16.08%), management occupations (14.31%), and office and administrative support (10.95%).
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Fort Totten - Minnewaukan spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.22 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
Being a small town, Fort Totten - Minnewaukan does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Fort Totten - Minnewaukan are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.31% of adults in Fort Totten - Minnewaukan have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Fort Totten - Minnewaukan in 2022 was $18,005, which is low income relative to North Dakota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $72,020 for a family of four. However, Fort Totten - Minnewaukan contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Fort Totten - Minnewaukan also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.78% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Fort Totten - Minnewaukan is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Fort Totten - Minnewaukan home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fort Totten - Minnewaukan residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Fort Totten - Minnewaukan include Norwegian, German, Swedish, Irish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Fort Totten - Minnewaukan is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Spanish.
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.
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 9 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.4% of America.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.5%) living in the neighborhood.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 57.4% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 81.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 6.7% have Norwegian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Fort Totten - Minnewaukan are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 37.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.7% of U.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, 42.0% 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 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (15.4%), and 15.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.6% of households. Some people also speak Native American languages (8.1%).
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 Fort Totten - Minnewaukan, ND, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (81.4%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (6.7%), and residents who report German roots (5.7%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (2.3%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 (57.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (72.5%) 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 (21.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.