Chatfield - Wykoff is a very small town located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 4,815 people and just one neighborhood, Chatfield - Wykoff is the 165th largest community in Minnesota. Chatfield - Wykoff has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Chatfield - Wykoff is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Chatfield - Wykoff is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Chatfield - Wykoff who work in office and administrative support (13.24%), healthcare (11.60%), and management occupations (10.61%).
A relatively large number of people in Chatfield - Wykoff telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.07% 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.
Because of many things, Chatfield - Wykoff is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Chatfield - Wykoff a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Chatfield - Wykoff has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Chatfield - Wykoff’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
The citizens of Chatfield - Wykoff are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 24.37% of adults in Chatfield - Wykoff having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Chatfield - Wykoff in 2022 was $38,851, which is upper middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $155,404 for a family of four. However, Chatfield - Wykoff contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Chatfield - Wykoff home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Chatfield - Wykoff residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Chatfield - Wykoff include German, Norwegian, Irish, English, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Chatfield - Wykoff is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 93.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 85.1% of the neighborhoods in MN. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.
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, 23.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 39.2% have German 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 Chatfield - Wykoff are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.8% 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 59.1% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 35.5% 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 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.9%), and 16.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.6% of households.
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 Chatfield - Wykoff, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (39.2%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (23.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.7%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (4.2%), 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 (33.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (73.2%) 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 (10.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.