Milaca is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 3,053 people and just one neighborhood, Milaca is the 238th largest community in Minnesota.
Milaca is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Milaca is a city of service providers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Milaca who work in teaching (9.54%), personal care services (9.28%), and food service (6.66%).
Of important note, Milaca is also a city of artists. Milaca has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Milaca’s character.
A relatively large number of people in Milaca telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 12.76% 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.
Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Milaca is worth considering.
The percentage of adults in Milaca with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.88% of adults in Milaca have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Milaca in 2022 was $33,236, 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 $132,944 for a family of four. However, Milaca contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Milaca home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Milaca residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Milaca include German, Swedish, Norwegian, Irish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Milaca is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.8%) living in the neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 12.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 6.5% have Dutch ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.3% 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 Milaca are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.5% of U.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, 36.3% 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 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.0%), and 11.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households. Some people also speak Polish (7.1%).
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 Milaca, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.8%). There are also a number of people of Swedish ancestry (12.9%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (12.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (10.7%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.9%), 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 (36.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.8%) 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%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.