Lester Prairie is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 1,901 people and just one neighborhood, Lester Prairie is the 324th largest community in Minnesota.
When you are in Lester Prairie, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.71% of Lester Prairie’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Lester Prairie is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lester Prairie who work in office and administrative support (14.00%), sales jobs (7.05%), and healthcare (6.58%).
A relatively large number of people in Lester Prairie telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.65% 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.
Lester Prairie 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 Lester Prairie with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.61% of adults in Lester Prairie have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Lester Prairie in 2022 was $36,048, which is middle income relative to Minnesota, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $144,192 for a family of four. However, Lester Prairie contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lester Prairie is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lester Prairie home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lester Prairie residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Lester Prairie also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.74% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lester Prairie include German, Norwegian, Czech, Swedish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Lester Prairie is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 91.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 51.5% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 6.8% have Norwegian ancestry.
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 Lester Prairie are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.0% 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 51.8% 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, 37.5% 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 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.4%), and 14.6% 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 94.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.4%).
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 Lester Prairie, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (51.5%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (6.8%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (6.2%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (4.7%), 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 (33.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.9%) 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 (6.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.