Taylors Falls - Shafer is a very small town located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 4,260 people and just one neighborhood, Taylors Falls - Shafer is the 180th largest community in Minnesota.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Taylors Falls - Shafer is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Taylors Falls - Shafer is a town of professionals, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Taylors Falls - Shafer who work in management occupations (10.14%), office and administrative support (8.02%), and sales jobs (6.58%).
Also of interest is that Taylors Falls - Shafer has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.25% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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, Taylors Falls - Shafer is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Taylors Falls - Shafer really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Taylors Falls - Shafer perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
One downside of living in Taylors Falls - Shafer is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Taylors Falls - Shafer, the average commute to work is 34.09 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
The population of Taylors Falls - Shafer 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 Taylors Falls - Shafer, 21.36% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Taylors Falls - Shafer in 2022 was $40,838, which is upper middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $163,352 for a family of four. However, Taylors Falls - Shafer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Taylors Falls - Shafer is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Taylors Falls - Shafer home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Taylors Falls - Shafer residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Taylors Falls - Shafer include German, Swedish, Norwegian, Irish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Taylors Falls - Shafer is English. Other important languages spoken here include Laotian 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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 15.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 12.7% have Norwegian 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 Taylors Falls - Shafer are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 70.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.6% 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 76.2% 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, 33.5% 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 33.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.4%), and 11.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.7% 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 Taylors Falls - Shafer, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.3%). There are also a number of people of Swedish ancestry (15.2%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (12.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.0%), along with some English ancestry residents (8.5%), 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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.5% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (74.9%) 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 (13.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.