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Gilman, WI

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Overview


Gilman is a tiny village located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 381 people and just one neighborhood, Gilman is the 475th largest community in Wisconsin.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Gilman is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.66% of the Gilman workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Gilman is a village of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Gilman who work in office and administrative support (10.09%), healthcare suport services (7.80%), and teaching (6.88%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.57% 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

The village is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Gilman has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Gilman a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Gilman, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.87 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Gilman with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.46% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Gilman in 2018 was $24,252, 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 $97,008 for a family of four. However, Gilman contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Gilman is English. Other important languages spoken here include Other Asian languages and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

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 11 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.8% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Polish and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry and 37.4% have German ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.9% 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 Gilman are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.0% 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 56.5% 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, 39.4% 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 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.4%), and 13.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.3% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (4.3%).

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 Gilman, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (37.4%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (22.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.9%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (6.8%), along with some English 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 (29.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.0%) 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 (10.5%) . 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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