Kerkhoven - Murdock is a very small town located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 2,472 people and just one neighborhood, Kerkhoven - Murdock is the 279th largest community in Minnesota. Kerkhoven - Murdock has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Kerkhoven - Murdock is a blue-collar town, with 38.02% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Kerkhoven - Murdock is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Kerkhoven - Murdock who work in management occupations (17.89%), farm management occupations (11.06%), and office and administrative support (8.32%).
You will also find that a lot of people in Kerkhoven - Murdock work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.
A relatively large number of people in Kerkhoven - Murdock telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.06% 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.
Kerkhoven - Murdock’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
Being a small town, Kerkhoven - Murdock does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Kerkhoven - Murdock is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.53% of adults 25 and older in Kerkhoven - Murdock have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Kerkhoven - Murdock in 2022 was $36,432, which is middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $145,728 for a family of four. However, Kerkhoven - Murdock contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Kerkhoven - Murdock is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Kerkhoven - Murdock home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kerkhoven - Murdock residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Kerkhoven - Murdock also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.10% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Kerkhoven - Murdock include German, Norwegian, Swedish, Irish, and Scandinavian.
The most common language spoken in Kerkhoven - Murdock is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Kerkhoven - Murdock, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.2% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 12 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Kerkhoven - Murdock is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in MN, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 87.4% of the neighborhoods in Minnesota. If you are considering retiring to Minnesota, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 23.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 10.8% have Swedish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.8% 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 Kerkhoven - Murdock are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.2% 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, 36.4% 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 27.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.8%), and 11.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 84.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Kerkhoven - Murdock, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.5%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (23.9%), and residents who report Mexican roots (12.8%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (10.8%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (10.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (67.3%) 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 (11.6%) and 9.8% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.