Brewster - Rushmore is a very small town located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 2,677 people and just one neighborhood, Brewster - Rushmore is the 263rd largest community in Minnesota. Brewster - Rushmore has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Brewster - Rushmore is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Brewster - Rushmore is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Brewster - Rushmore who work in office and administrative support (14.45%), management occupations (11.96%), and sales jobs (8.33%).
A relatively large number of people in Brewster - Rushmore telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.28% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Because of many things, Brewster - Rushmore is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Brewster - Rushmore a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Brewster - Rushmore has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Brewster - Rushmore’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Brewster - Rushmore rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.60% of adults 25 and older in Brewster - Rushmore have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Brewster - Rushmore in 2022 was $34,490, which is middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $137,960 for a family of four. However, Brewster - Rushmore contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Brewster - Rushmore is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Brewster - Rushmore home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Brewster - Rushmore residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Brewster - Rushmore also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.30% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Brewster - Rushmore include German, Dutch, Norwegian, Irish, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Brewster - Rushmore is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
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 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 45.6% have German ancestry.
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 Brewster - Rushmore are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.3% 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, 29.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.6%), and 19.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 86.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (12.8%).
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 Brewster - Rushmore, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (45.6%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (10.3%), and residents who report Dutch roots (8.6%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (8.3%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (7.1%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (74.7%) 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 (11.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.