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Fall River, WI

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Overview


Fall River is a very small village located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 1,794 people and just one neighborhood, Fall River is the 320th largest community in Wisconsin. Much of the housing stock in Fall River was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Fall River economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Fall River, where the median household income is $74,688.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Fall River is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Fall River is a village of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fall River who work in management occupations (12.77%), office and administrative support (9.74%), and sales jobs (7.28%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Fall River’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

Fall River is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Fall River who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 27.81% of adults in Fall River have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Fall River in 2018 was $30,793, 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 $123,172 for a family of four. However, Fall River contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Fall River is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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

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 40 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 46.2% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 12.2% have Norwegian 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 Fall River are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.1% 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 58.2% of America's neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 35.1% 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 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.4%), and 15.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Fall River, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (46.2%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (12.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.2%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (5.5%), 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 (30.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (80.3%) 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 (8.7%) . 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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