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Le Center, MN

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Overview


Le Center is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 2,505 people and just one neighborhood, Le Center is the 278th largest community in Minnesota.

Occupations and Workforce

Le Center is a blue-collar town, with 44.85% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Le Center is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Le Center who work in office and administrative support (9.40%), management occupations (7.46%), and healthcare suport services (5.15%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Le Center’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

Le Center is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The citizens of Le Center are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.06% of adults in Le Center have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Le Center in 2022 was $31,173, 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 $124,692 for a family of four. However, Le Center contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Le Center is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Le Center home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Le Center residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Le Center also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.90% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Le Center include German, Czech, English, Irish, and Norwegian.

The most common language spoken in Le Center is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

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 Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 42.8% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 0.7% have Czechoslovakian 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 Le Center are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 63.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.7% 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 68.9% 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, 38.0% 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 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.2%), and 13.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 87.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

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 Le Center, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (42.8%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (14.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.4%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (8.1%), 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 (34.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.0%) 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 (9.0%) . 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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