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Elk Mound, WI

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Overview


Elk Mound is a tiny village located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 988 people and just one neighborhood, Elk Mound is the 384th largest community in Wisconsin.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Elk Mound is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.17% of the Elk Mound workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Elk Mound is a village of professionals, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Elk Mound who work in office and administrative support (9.14%), teaching (7.93%), and food service (7.76%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small village, Elk Mound does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Elk Mound is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 25.04% of adults 25 and older in the village have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Elk Mound in 2022 was $32,563, 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 $130,252 for a family of four. However, Elk Mound contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Elk Mound home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Elk Mound residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Elk Mound include German, Norwegian, Irish, English, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Elk Mound is English. Other important languages spoken here include Miao/Hmong and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 36 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Austrian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 20.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 2.1% have Austrian ancestry.

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 Elk Mound are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.2% 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 58.0% of America'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, 33.6% 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 31.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.6%), and 15.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.3%).

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 Elk Mound, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (41.2%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (20.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.6%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (5.2%), 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 (47.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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