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Boyceville - Knapp, WI

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Overview


Boyceville - Knapp is a very small town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 4,840 people and just one neighborhood, Boyceville - Knapp is the 168th largest community in Wisconsin.

Occupations and Workforce

Boyceville - Knapp is a blue-collar town, with 42.05% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Boyceville - Knapp is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Boyceville - Knapp who work in office and administrative support (11.22%), management occupations (8.72%), and sales jobs (5.97%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.50% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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

Demographics

The citizens of Boyceville - Knapp are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.58% of adults in Boyceville - Knapp have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Boyceville - Knapp in 2018 was $35,437, which is upper middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $141,748 for a family of four. However, Boyceville - Knapp contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Boyceville - Knapp is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 38 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.2% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 2.0% have Slovak ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.9% 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 Boyceville - Knapp are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.5% 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 52.8% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 41.2% 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 24.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.8%), and 16.4% 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 98.2% of households. Some people also speak Polish (6.8%).

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 Boyceville - Knapp, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (38.6%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (22.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.2%), along with some Swedish 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 (41.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.5%) 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 (9.7%) . 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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