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Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills, WI

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Overview


Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills is a very small town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 2,859 people and just one neighborhood, Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills is the 259th largest community in Wisconsin.

Occupations and Workforce

Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills is a blue-collar town, with 35.97% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills who work in management occupations (11.66%), office and administrative support (8.93%), and healthcare suport services (7.47%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.09% 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

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.84% of adults 25 and older in Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills in 2022 was $33,843, which is lower middle income relative to Wisconsin, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $135,372 for a family of four. However, Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills include German, Norwegian, Irish, English, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills is English. Other important languages spoken here include French 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 Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 4.0% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 21 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more West Indian and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.1% of this neighborhood's residents have West Indian ancestry and 18.6% have Norwegian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.5% of U.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, 32.1% 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 32.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.4%), and 15.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.4% of households. Some people also speak French (5.5%).

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 Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.3%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (18.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (15.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (11.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.2%), 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 (32.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (68.5%) 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 (18.1%) . 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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