Taylors Falls - Shafer is a very small town located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 4,260 people and just one neighborhood, Taylors Falls - Shafer is the 180th largest community in Minnesota.
Taylors Falls - Shafer is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Taylors Falls - Shafer is a town of professionals, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Taylors Falls - Shafer who work in management occupations (10.14%), office and administrative support (8.02%), and sales jobs (6.58%).
Also of interest is that Taylors Falls - Shafer has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.25% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Taylors Falls - Shafer is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Taylors Falls - Shafer’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
In Taylors Falls - Shafer, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.09 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
The citizens of Taylors Falls - Shafer are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.36% of adults in Taylors Falls - Shafer having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Taylors Falls - Shafer in 2022 was $40,838, which is upper middle income relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $163,352 for a family of four. However, Taylors Falls - Shafer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Taylors Falls - Shafer is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Taylors Falls - Shafer home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Taylors Falls - Shafer residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Taylors Falls - Shafer include German, Swedish, Norwegian, Irish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Taylors Falls - Shafer is English. Other important languages spoken here include Laotian and Spanish.
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.
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, 15.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 12.7% have Norwegian ancestry.
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 Taylors Falls - Shafer are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 70.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.6% 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 76.2% 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, 33.5% 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 33.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.4%), and 11.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.7% of households.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Taylors Falls - Shafer, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.3%). There are also a number of people of Swedish ancestry (15.2%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (12.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.0%), along with some English ancestry residents (8.5%), 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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.5% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (74.9%) 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 (13.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.