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Oronoco, MN

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Overview


Oronoco is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 1,781 people and just one neighborhood, Oronoco is the 334th largest community in Minnesota. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Oronoco, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Oronoco, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Oronoco’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Oronoco does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $146,875.00.

Oronoco home prices are not only among the most expensive in Minnesota, but Oronoco real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.

Occupations and Workforce

Oronoco is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 87.16% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Oronoco is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oronoco who work in healthcare (23.33%), management occupations (15.43%), and computer science and math (10.37%).

Also of interest is that Oronoco has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.71% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

In addition, Oronoco is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates", which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Because of many things, Oronoco is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Oronoco really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Oronoco perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

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

Demographics

If knowledge is power, Oronoco is a pretty powerful place. 56.45% of the adults in Oronoco have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Oronoco in 2022 was $56,977, which is wealthy relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $227,908 for a family of four.

The people who call Oronoco home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Oronoco residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Oronoco include German, Norwegian, Irish, English, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Oronoco is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Oronoco, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

A majority of the adults in the neighborhood are wealthy and educated executives. They own stately homes that tend to maintain high real estate appreciation rates. Their upper-level careers keep them busy, but allow them to live comfortably. If you're an executive and want to keep similar company, consider settling in this neighborhood, rated as an executive lifestyle "best choice" neighborhood for Minnesota by Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's analysis, which rated it as better for executive lifestyles than 99.8% of the neighborhoods in Minnesota. In addition to being an excellent choice for highly educated executives, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for families with school-aged children and urban sophisticates.

In addition, priests and therapists would like to think they know the secrets to a truly successful marriage, but according to Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's research, the folks of the neighborhood may actually hold the key. 68.7% of its residents are married, which is a higher percentage than is found in 95.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 13.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 40.4% have German 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 Oronoco are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 91.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.9% 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 78.9% 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, 59.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 15.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (13.7%), and 11.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.0%).

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 Oronoco, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (40.4%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (13.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.8%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.0%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (62.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (69.1%) 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 (12.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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