Fulda is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 1,345 people and just one neighborhood, Fulda is the 369th largest community in Minnesota.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Fulda is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.09% of the Fulda workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Fulda is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fulda who work in office and administrative support (12.55%), teaching (10.41%), and healthcare suport services (9.56%).
Fulda is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Fulda are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.30% of adults in Fulda have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Fulda in 2022 was $33,182, which is lower middle income relative to Minnesota, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $132,728 for a family of four. However, Fulda contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Fulda is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Fulda home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fulda residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Fulda include German, Norwegian, Dutch, Irish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Fulda is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Fulda, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 15 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.9% of America.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 95.9% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
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, 16.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 39.6% 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 Fulda are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.6% 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 59.8% 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, 31.4% 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 31.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.5%), and 15.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 86.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (8.1%).
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 Fulda, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (39.6%). There are also a number of people of Dutch ancestry (16.8%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (8.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.9%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 (40.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.3%) 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 (6.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.