Warroad is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 1,824 people and just one neighborhood, Warroad is the 331st largest community in Minnesota.
When you are in Warroad, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 43.62% of Warroad’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Warroad is a city of production and manufacturing workers, managers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Warroad who work in management occupations (10.93%), office and administrative support (7.74%), and business and financial occupations (6.61%).
Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 15.99 minutes getting to work every day.
Being a small city, Warroad does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Warroad with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.76% of adults in Warroad have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Warroad in 2022 was $31,944, 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 $127,776 for a family of four. However, Warroad contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Warroad home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Warroad residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Warroad include Norwegian, German, Swedish, Irish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Warroad is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Native American languages.
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.
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. 71.9% 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 98.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
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 23 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.0% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 23.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 9.7% have Swedish 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 Warroad are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.0% 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, 39.3% 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 32.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.7%), and 8.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.8% of households.
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 Warroad, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.1%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (23.4%), and residents who report Swedish roots (9.7%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (9.3%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.9%), 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 (71.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (74.9%) 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 (13.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.