Dodge Center is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 2,928 people and just one neighborhood, Dodge Center is the 251st largest community in Minnesota.
When you are in Dodge Center, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.05% of Dodge Center’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Dodge Center is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dodge Center who work in office and administrative support (13.33%), management occupations (7.28%), and sales jobs (7.16%).
In terms of college education, Dodge Center is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.49% of adults 25 and older in Dodge Center have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Dodge Center in 2022 was $38,585, which is upper middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $154,340 for a family of four. However, Dodge Center contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Dodge Center is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Dodge Center home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dodge Center residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Dodge Center also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.79% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Dodge Center include German, Norwegian, Irish, English, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Dodge Center is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 20.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 37.7% 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 Dodge Center are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 69.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.8% 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 51.2% 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, 32.6% 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 31.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.1%), and 16.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 85.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (11.8%).
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 Dodge Center, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (37.7%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (20.1%), and residents who report Mexican roots (11.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.7%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.2%), 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 (34.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.5%) 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 (13.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.