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Spring Grove, MN

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Overview


Spring Grove is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 1,240 people and just one neighborhood, Spring Grove is the 382nd largest community in Minnesota. Spring Grove has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Spring Grove, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.48% of Spring Grove’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Spring Grove is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Spring Grove who work in office and administrative support (12.76%), maintenance occupations (11.71%), and healthcare suport services (6.99%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Spring Grove 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.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Spring Grove who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.35% of the adults in Spring Grove have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Spring Grove in 2022 was $31,600, 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 $126,400 for a family of four. However, Spring Grove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Spring Grove home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Spring Grove residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Spring Grove include Norwegian, German, Irish, Scottish, and Czech.

The most common language spoken in Spring Grove is English. Other important languages spoken here include Scandinavian languages and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Spring Grove, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 15 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Spring Grove is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in MN, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 88.3% of the neighborhoods in Minnesota. If you are considering retiring to Minnesota, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

Diversity

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, 41.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 40.4% have German 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 Spring Grove are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.6% 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 69.4% 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, 33.1% 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 31.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.2%), and 16.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.0% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Spring Grove, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Norwegian (41.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (40.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.0%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (1.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (38.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (72.9%) 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 (12.0%) . 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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