Clarissa - Eagle Bend is a very small town located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 3,222 people and just one neighborhood, Clarissa - Eagle Bend is the 227th largest community in Minnesota. Clarissa - Eagle Bend has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
When you are in Clarissa - Eagle Bend, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.78% of Clarissa - Eagle Bend’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Clarissa - Eagle Bend is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Clarissa - Eagle Bend who work in management occupations (15.25%), sales jobs (9.34%), and office and administrative support (7.17%).
A relatively large number of people in Clarissa - Eagle Bend telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 12.33% 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.
The citizens of Clarissa - Eagle Bend have a very low rate of college education: just 9.70% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Clarissa - Eagle Bend in 2022 was $25,819, which is low income relative to Minnesota, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $103,276 for a family of four. However, Clarissa - Eagle Bend contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Clarissa - Eagle Bend home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Clarissa - Eagle Bend residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Clarissa - Eagle Bend include German, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Clarissa - Eagle Bend 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.
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 95.2% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
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 20 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.7% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 43.6% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 10.3% have Norwegian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 12.6% 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 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Clarissa - Eagle Bend are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.0% 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, 38.1% 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 29.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.4%), and 12.7% 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 86.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish 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 Clarissa - Eagle Bend, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (43.6%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (10.3%), and residents who report Polish roots (9.8%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (5.9%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (4.1%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (75.9%) 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 (9.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.