Chisholm is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 4,711 people and just one neighborhood, Chisholm is the 164th largest community in Minnesota. Chisholm has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
Chisholm is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Chisholm is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Chisholm who work in healthcare suport services (12.18%), sales jobs (10.76%), and teaching (10.07%).
Also of interest is that Chisholm has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Chisholm has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Chisholm a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small city, Chisholm does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Chisholm with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.78% of adults in Chisholm have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Chisholm in 2022 was $34,124, which is middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $136,496 for a family of four. However, Chisholm contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Chisholm home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Chisholm residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Chisholm include German, Norwegian, Swedish, Irish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Chisholm is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 8.4% have Swedish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.4% 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 Chisholm are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 30.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 29.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.5%), and 19.7% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Chisholm, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.8%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report Swedish roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.8%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.8%), 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 (48.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.1%) 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 (9.4%) and 8.4% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.