Clearbrook is a tiny city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 466 people and just one neighborhood, Clearbrook is the 458th largest community in Minnesota.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Clearbrook is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.40% of the Clearbrook workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Clearbrook is a city of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Clearbrook who work in personal care services (9.21%), office and administrative support (8.77%), and sales jobs (8.77%).
And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Clearbrook has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 24.12% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
As is often the case in a small city, Clearbrook doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Clearbrook overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Clearbrook, 22.39% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Clearbrook in 2022 was $28,288, 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 $113,152 for a family of four. However, Clearbrook contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Clearbrook is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Clearbrook home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Clearbrook residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Clearbrook include German, Norwegian, Irish, Polish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Clearbrook is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Scandinavian languages.
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.
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 6 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.9% of America.
In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 30.2%, which is higher than 95.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 30.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 8.3% have Swedish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.2% 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 99.4% 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 Clearbrook are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.5% 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 53.7% 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, 32.7% 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 30.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.7%), and 16.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.1% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (7.2%).
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 Clearbrook, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Norwegian (30.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (25.0%), and residents who report Swedish roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.3%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (3.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (72.2%) 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 (9.8%) and 8.1% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.