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Willernie, MN

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Overview


Willernie is a tiny city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 519 people and just one neighborhood, Willernie is the 449th largest community in Minnesota. Willernie has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.

Willernie real estate is some of the most expensive in Minnesota, although Willernie house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Willernie is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Willernie is a city of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Willernie who work in management occupations (21.62%), office and administrative support (18.47%), and business and financial occupations (9.46%).

Also of interest is that Willernie has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Of important note, Willernie is also a city of artists. Willernie has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Willernie’s character.

A relatively large number of people in Willernie telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.45% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Willernie has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Willernie has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Willernie than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Willernie may be for you.

Willernie is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The overall education level of Willernie citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 32.44% of adults in Willernie have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.

The per capita income in Willernie in 2022 was $38,110, which is upper middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $152,440 for a family of four.

The people who call Willernie home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Willernie residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Willernie include German, Norwegian, French, Czech, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in Willernie is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Diversity

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, 12.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 10.9% have Norwegian ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Willernie are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 81.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.7% 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 68.8% 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, 57.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 16.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.5%), and 11.2% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Willernie, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (37.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (21.9%), and residents who report Swedish roots (12.7%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (10.9%), along with some English ancestry residents (7.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (68.9%) 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 (5.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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