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Dennison, MN

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Overview


Dennison is a tiny city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 217 people and just one neighborhood, Dennison is the 493rd largest community in Minnesota. Much of the housing stock in Dennison was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

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

Occupations and Workforce

Dennison is a blue-collar town, with 44.29% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Dennison is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dennison who work in office and administrative support (20.00%), sales jobs (11.43%), and healthcare suport services (7.14%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Dennison 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, Dennison really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Dennison 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.

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!) Dennison 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. Dennison has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Dennison than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Dennison may be for you.

As is often the case in a small city, Dennison doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The education level of Dennison citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.37% of adults in Dennison have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Dennison in 2022 was $27,912, which is low income relative to Minnesota, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $111,648 for a family of four. However, Dennison contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Dennison home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dennison residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Dennison include German, Norwegian, Irish, Scottish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Dennison is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Car Ownership

Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 33.1% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.0% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 27 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

People

If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 14.8% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Minnesota. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 18.6% have Norwegian ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Dennison are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 79.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.4% 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 77.5% of America'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, 37.9% 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 28.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.9%), and 11.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% of households.

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 Dennison, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (37.0%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (18.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.4%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (10.2%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (27.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (75.9%) 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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