Clara City is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 1,372 people and just one neighborhood, Clara City is the 364th largest community in Minnesota.
When you are in Clara City, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.63% of Clara City’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Clara City is a city of sales and office workers, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Clara City who work in management occupations (16.06%), office and administrative support (11.51%), and sales jobs (9.50%).
The overall crime rate in Clara City 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.
One of the benefits of Clara City is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.95 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Clara City 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.
The percentage of adults in Clara City with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.59% of adults in Clara City have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Clara City in 2022 was $31,445, which is lower middle income relative to Minnesota, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $125,780 for a family of four. However, Clara City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Clara City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Clara City residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Clara City include German, Norwegian, Dutch, Irish, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Clara City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish 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.
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 17 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.4% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 24.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 50.5% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.1% 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 Clara City are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.5% 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 63.1% 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, 31.8% 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 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.8%), and 17.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 95.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Clara City, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (50.5%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (24.9%), and residents who report Dutch roots (11.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.9%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (6.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.4%) 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 (13.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.