Harris is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 1,142 people and two associated neighborhoods, Harris is the 390th largest community in Minnesota.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Harris is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.24% of the Harris workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Harris is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Harris who work in office and administrative support (14.12%), healthcare suport services (8.71%), and management occupations (7.29%). Also of interest is that Harris has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. A relatively large number of people in Harris telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.23% 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. 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!) Harris 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. Harris has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Harris than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Harris may be for you. In Harris, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 35.18 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Harris 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 people in Harris with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.92% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Harris in 2022 was $40,064, 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 $160,256 for a family of four. However, Harris contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Harris home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Harris residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Harris include German, Swedish, Irish, Norwegian, and English. The most common language spoken in Harris is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
