About Mc Farland

Mc Farland is a somewhat small town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 9,097 people and just one neighborhood, Mc Farland is the 83rd largest community in Wisconsin.

Mc Farland is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Mc Farland is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mc Farland who work in office and administrative support jobs (20.46%), sales jobs (10.63%), and management occupations (10.12%).

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

Because of many things, Mc Farland 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, Mc Farland really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Mc Farland perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, 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.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Mc Farland spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.88 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

Mc Farland is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Mc Farland, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 98.42% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

As is often the case in a small town, Mc Farland doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Mc Farland Information and Demographics

The education level of Mc Farland citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 34.41% of adults in Mc Farland have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Mc Farland in 2000 was $27,621, which is wealthy relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $110,484 for a family of four. However, Mc Farland contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Mc Farland home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Mc Farland is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Mc Farland include German, Norwegian, Irish, English, Polish, Italian, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Mc Farland is English.