McGregor is a tiny city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 378 people and two associated neighborhoods, McGregor is the 472nd largest community in Minnesota.

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

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.42% 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.

McGregor’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

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!) McGregor 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. McGregor has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in McGregor than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, McGregor may be for you.

One of the benefits of McGregor is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 16.54 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.

Being a small city, McGregor does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

In terms of college education, the citizens of McGregor rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.34% of adults 25 and older in McGregor have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in McGregor in 2022 was $20,334, which is low income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $81,336 for a family of four. However, McGregor contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. McGregor also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.00% of its population below the federal poverty line.

McGregor is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call McGregor home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McGregor residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in McGregor include German, Dutch, Norwegian, Hungarian, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in McGregor is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Serbo-Croatian.