Buhl is a tiny city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 949 people and just one neighborhood, Buhl is the 402nd largest community in Minnesota.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Buhl is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.47% of the Buhl workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Buhl is a city of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Buhl who work in management occupations (11.22%), sales jobs (9.82%), and food service (8.82%).
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Buhl has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Buhl has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Buhl than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Buhl may be for you.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Buhl spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.37 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
In terms of college education, Buhl is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.17% of adults 25 and older in Buhl have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Buhl in 2022 was $30,717, 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 $122,868 for a family of four. However, Buhl contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Buhl home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Buhl residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Buhl include German, Norwegian, Finnish, Irish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Buhl is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Arabic.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Would you like to be able to ride your bike to work? If you are attracted to the idea of getting a little exercise of the two-wheeled type while reducing your carbon footprint, bicycling to work might be the answer. But which neighborhood you live in can make this either impossible, or alternatively, a great and realistic option. NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that the neighborhood is a fantastic option for bicycle commuters, as 3.3% of commuters here do ride their bikes to and from work on a daily basis. This is a higher amount than we found in 96.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Finnish and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 16.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 2.0% have Croatian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Buhl are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.8% 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 76.1% 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, 36.1% 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 31.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.9%), and 13.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.5%).
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 Buhl, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.3%). There are also a number of people of Finnish ancestry (16.2%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (11.7%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (6.1%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (5.6%), 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 (47.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.7%) 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 (7.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.