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1996 City of Lino Lakes Residential Survey EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF FINDINGS Methodology: This study contains the results of a telephone survey of 402 randomly selected residents of the City of Lino Lakes. Survey responses were gathered by professional interviewers across the community between September 4 and 16, 1996. The average interview took twenty-seven minutes. In general,random samples such as this yield results projectable to the entire universe of adult Lino Lakes residents within f 5.0 percentage points in 95 out of 100 cases. Residential Demographics: Lino Lakes was found to be a relatively heterogeneous"fast-growing"outer-ring suburban community. The median longevity of adult residents was 6.5 years. Fifteen percent of the sample reported moving to the city during the past two years,while ten percent had been there for over two decades. Ninety-eight percent owned their residence,while two percent reported renting. Seven percent of the households contained senior citizens. Sixty-eight percent reported the presence of school-aged or pre-school children. The average age of adult respondents was 41.1 years old. Twenty-two percent reported ages under thirty-five years old,while thirteen percent were 55 years old or older. Women and men were equally represented in the sample. The occupational structure of the community reflected a split between up-scale White Collar households and Blue Collar households. Up-scale White Collar households --headed by holders of Professional-Technical or Owner-Manger jobs--comprised forty-six percent of the sample. Clerical-Sales households numbered fifteen percent, while Blue Collar households were twenty- four percent. Retirees were another nine percent of the respondents. Twenty-one percent of the sample reported working at home in a business or teleconferencing/telecommuting to work. Twelve percent of the households contained adult members who had sought full-time employment in the City of Lino Lake. The median household income in the community was $66,500.00,about$18,000.00 above the suburban norm. The location of the residence of each respondent was noted. Twenty percent lived in Precinct One,while thirty-five percent resided in Precinct Two. Precinct Three accounted for twenty- three percent of the respondents,and Precinct Four was an identical twenty-three percent of the sample. VDRL