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Long Lake, MN

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Overview


Long Lake is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 1,923 people and just one neighborhood, Long Lake is the 339th largest community in Minnesota.

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

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Long Lake isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Long Lake are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Long Lake is a city of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Long Lake who work in management occupations (17.31%), sales jobs (14.84%), and business and financial occupations (11.29%).

Also of interest is that Long Lake has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

A relatively large number of people in Long Lake telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 21.20% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Long Lake, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Long Lake is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 54.46% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Long Lake in 2022 was $52,124, which is wealthy relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $208,496 for a family of four.

Long Lake is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Long Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Long Lake residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Long Lake include German, Norwegian, Swedish, Irish, and English.

The most common language spoken in Long Lake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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.

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, 14.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 15.8% have Norwegian 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 Long Lake are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 70.3% 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 77.1% 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, 49.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 24.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (16.2%), and 9.6% 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 90.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 Long Lake, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.6%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (15.8%), and residents who report Swedish roots (14.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (10.6%), along with some English ancestry residents (9.4%), 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 (40.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (63.9%) 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 (13.1%) . 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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