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St. Augusta, MN

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Overview


St. Augusta is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 3,627 people and just one neighborhood, St. Augusta is the 208th largest community in Minnesota. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in St. Augusta, 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 St. Augusta, and putting down their money on brand new construction. St. Augusta’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. St. Augusta does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $120,526.00.

St. Augusta real estate is some of the most expensive in Minnesota, although St. Augusta house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, St. Augusta is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, St. Augusta is a city of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in St. Augusta who work in management occupations (18.97%), office and administrative support (11.08%), and sales jobs (8.26%).

A relatively large number of people in St. Augusta telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.52% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, St. Augusta is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, St. Augusta really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is St. Augusta perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Being a small city, St. Augusta does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of St. Augusta are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 35.16% of adults in St. Augusta have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in St. Augusta in 2022 was $51,604, which is wealthy relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $206,416 for a family of four.

The people who call St. Augusta home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of St. Augusta residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in St. Augusta include German, Irish, Polish, Norwegian, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in St. Augusta is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Diversity

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, 44.5% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 7.3% have Norwegian ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 St. Augusta are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 64.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 18.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.5% 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, 41.6% 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 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.1%), and 14.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.7% of households. Some people also speak Langs. of India (2.2%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 St. Augusta, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (44.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report Polish roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (7.3%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (4.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (50.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.3%) 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.


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