Albany is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 2,832 people and just one neighborhood, Albany is the 255th largest community in Minnesota. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Albany, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Albany, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Albany’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Albany does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $75,417.00.
Albany is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Albany is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Albany who work in office and administrative support (12.47%), healthcare (9.08%), and sales jobs (8.49%).
Also of interest is that Albany has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Albany’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
Albany 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 education level of Albany citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.38% of adults in Albany have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Albany in 2022 was $38,143, which is middle income relative to Minnesota, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $152,572 for a family of four. However, Albany contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Albany home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Albany residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Albany include German, Norwegian, Irish, Polish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Albany is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Korean.
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.
With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 87.1% of the neighborhoods in MN. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 58.6% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 9.8% have Norwegian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Albany are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 69.0% 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 69.0% 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, 35.9% 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 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.2%), and 15.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.7% of households. Some people also speak Polish (7.4%).
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 Albany, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (58.6%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report Polish roots (6.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.9%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (83.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.