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Sleepy Eye is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 3,417 people and just one neighborhood, Sleepy Eye is the 215th largest community in Minnesota.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some cities, Sleepy Eye isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Sleepy Eye are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sleepy Eye is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sleepy Eye who work in management occupations (12.62%), sales jobs (10.15%), and office and administrative support (8.61%).
Of important note, Sleepy Eye is also a city of artists. Sleepy Eye has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Sleepy Eye’s character.
Setting & Lifestyle
Sleepy Eye’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
One of the benefits of Sleepy Eye is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.49 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.
Demographics
The education level of Sleepy Eye citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.86% of adults 25 and older in Sleepy Eye have a college degree.
The per capita income in Sleepy Eye in 2022 was $35,170, 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 $140,680 for a family of four. However, Sleepy Eye contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Sleepy Eye is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Sleepy Eye home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sleepy Eye residents report their race to be White. Sleepy Eye also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.70% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Sleepy Eye include German, Norwegian, Irish, Czech, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Sleepy Eye is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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.
Modes of Transportation
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.5% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.8% of all American neighborhoods.
Diversity
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, 52.3% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 12.0% have Norwegian ancestry.
The Neighbors
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 Sleepy Eye are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.2% 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.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 33.9% 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 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.5%), and 15.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (11.1%).
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 Sleepy Eye, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (52.3%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (16.0%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (12.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.9%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (4.1%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 (56.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (89.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
