Wood Lake - Echo is a very small town located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 1,853 people and just one neighborhood, Wood Lake - Echo is the 326th largest community in Minnesota. Much of the housing stock in Wood Lake - Echo was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Wood Lake - Echo is a blue-collar town, with 37.72% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Wood Lake - Echo is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wood Lake - Echo who work in management occupations (13.53%), office and administrative support (11.68%), and sales jobs (6.39%).
Wood Lake - Echo is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Wood Lake - Echo rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.19% of adults 25 and older in Wood Lake - Echo have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Wood Lake - Echo in 2022 was $40,742, which is upper middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $162,968 for a family of four. However, Wood Lake - Echo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Wood Lake - Echo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wood Lake - Echo residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Wood Lake - Echo include German, Norwegian, Irish, Belgian, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Wood Lake - Echo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Miao/Hmong and Polish.
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 10 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 27.8% have Norwegian ancestry.
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 Wood Lake - Echo are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.0% 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 60.9% 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, 35.6% 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 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.4%), and 14.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.8%).
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 Wood Lake - Echo, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (49.7%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (27.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.1%), and some of the residents are also of Belgian ancestry (5.5%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (3.8%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.9%) 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 (6.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.