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Horicon, WI

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Overview


Horicon is a very small city located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 3,787 people and just one neighborhood, Horicon is the 209th largest community in Wisconsin.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Horicon, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.76% of Horicon’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Horicon is a city of production and manufacturing workers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Horicon who work in management occupations (11.43%), office and administrative support (9.25%), and sales jobs (6.24%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 12.11% 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

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Horicon rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.84% of adults 25 and older in Horicon have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Horicon in 2018 was $28,596, which is low income relative to Wisconsin, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,384 for a family of four. However, Horicon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Horicon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Horicon residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Horicon include German, Irish, Polish, English, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Horicon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.

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 Horicon, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 60.3% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 1.2% have Swiss 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 Horicon are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.6% 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, 37.3% 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 29.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.7%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Horicon, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (60.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.3%), and residents who report Polish roots (4.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.2%), along with some English ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (51.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (76.5%) 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 (11.3%) . 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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