Nashwauk - Keewatin is a very small town located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 2,448 people and just one neighborhood, Nashwauk - Keewatin is the 281st largest community in Minnesota.
Nashwauk - Keewatin is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Nashwauk - Keewatin is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Nashwauk - Keewatin who work in office and administrative support (10.18%), sales jobs (9.65%), and food service (6.58%).
Of important note, Nashwauk - Keewatin is also a town of artists. Nashwauk - Keewatin has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Nashwauk - Keewatin’s character.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.25% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
The town 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, Nashwauk - Keewatin has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Nashwauk - Keewatin a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
The percentage of adults in Nashwauk - Keewatin with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.39% of adults in Nashwauk - Keewatin have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Nashwauk - Keewatin in 2022 was $29,863, 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 $119,452 for a family of four. However, Nashwauk - Keewatin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Nashwauk - Keewatin is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Nashwauk - Keewatin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Nashwauk - Keewatin residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Nashwauk - Keewatin include German, Finnish, Norwegian, Italian, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Nashwauk - Keewatin is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Serbo-Croatian.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 35 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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, 12.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 1.9% have Croatian 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 Nashwauk - Keewatin are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 37.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 31.3% 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 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.5%), and 13.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households. Some people also speak Polish (5.1%).
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 Nashwauk - Keewatin, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.5%). There are also a number of people of Finnish ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (10.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.4%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (7.1%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.3%) 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 (8.8%) and 6.9% 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.