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Caledonia, MN

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Overview


Caledonia is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 2,831 people and just one neighborhood, Caledonia is the 250th largest community in Minnesota.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Caledonia, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.29% of Caledonia’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Caledonia is a city of managers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Caledonia who work in management occupations (12.66%), office and administrative support (9.26%), and healthcare (6.30%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Caledonia is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

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, Caledonia has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Caledonia a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Being a small city, Caledonia does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Caledonia with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.90% of adults in Caledonia have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Caledonia in 2022 was $42,177, which is upper middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $168,708 for a family of four. However, Caledonia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Caledonia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Caledonia residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Caledonia include German, Norwegian, Irish, English, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Caledonia is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Scandinavian languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Caledonia 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 89.3% of the neighborhoods in Minnesota. If you are considering retiring to Minnesota, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 43.1% have German ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Caledonia are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.8% 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 75.8% of America'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, 34.4% 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 33.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.8%), and 13.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households.

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 Caledonia, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (43.1%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (22.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.8%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (5.7%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (48.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (77.8%) 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 (13.9%) . 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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