Squaw Lake is a tiny city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 100 people and just one neighborhood, Squaw Lake is the 521st largest community in Minnesota.
Unlike some cities, Squaw Lake isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Squaw Lake are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Squaw Lake is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Squaw Lake who work in sales jobs (18.18%), healthcare suport services (18.18%), and personal care services (13.64%).
Also of interest is that Squaw Lake has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 25.00% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
Squaw Lake’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Squaw Lake has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Squaw Lake a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Squaw Lake, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 37.65 minutes every day commuting to work. However, local public transit is widely used. For those who would prefer to avoid driving entirely and leave their car at home, it may be an option to use the transit instead.
Despite being a small city, Squaw Lake has a lot of people using the bus to get to and from work every day. Most of these people on the bus are using it to get to good jobs in other cities.
The population of Squaw Lake has a very low overall level of education: only 8.14% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Squaw Lake in 2022 was $19,900, which is low income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $79,600 for a family of four. However, Squaw Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Squaw Lake is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Squaw Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Squaw Lake residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Squaw Lake include German, Norwegian, Irish, Swedish, and Finnish.
The most common language spoken in Squaw Lake 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.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 7 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.7% of America.
In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 34.0% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 96.5% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 34.2% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.7% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 17.7% have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.3% 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 Squaw Lake are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 27.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.4% 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, 34.9% 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 26.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.1%), and 12.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households. Some people also speak Native American languages (2.8%).
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 Squaw Lake, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.5%). There are also a number of people of Native American ancestry (17.7%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (14.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.4%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.6%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (75.8%) 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 (7.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.