Howard Lake is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 2,186 people and just one neighborhood, Howard Lake is the 309th largest community in Minnesota.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Howard Lake is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Howard Lake is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Howard Lake who work in office and administrative support (16.81%), sales jobs (12.39%), and healthcare suport services (9.40%).
Also of interest is that Howard Lake has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Howard Lake telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 18.25% 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 overall crime rate in Howard Lake 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.
In Howard Lake, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.54 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small city, Howard Lake doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Howard Lake 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 Howard Lake, 21.97% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Howard Lake in 2022 was $42,777, which is upper middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $171,108 for a family of four. However, Howard Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Howard Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Howard Lake residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Howard Lake include German, Swedish, Irish, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Howard Lake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Howard Lake, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 9.9% have Swedish 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 Howard Lake are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 73.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.6% 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 51.1% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 34.5% 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 28.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.7%), and 17.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.8% 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 Howard Lake, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (44.9%). There are also a number of people of Swedish ancestry (9.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (7.4%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.6%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (29.4% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (77.6%) 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 (5.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.