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Hortonville, WI

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Overview


Hortonville is a very small village located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 3,361 people and just one neighborhood, Hortonville is the 247th largest community in Wisconsin.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Hortonville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.99% of the Hortonville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Hortonville is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hortonville who work in office and administrative support (10.95%), sales jobs (10.61%), and management occupations (6.24%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The population of Hortonville overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Hortonville, 22.90% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Hortonville in 2018 was $36,669, which is upper middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $146,676 for a family of four.

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

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

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.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 43.2% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.2% of American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 43.1% have German 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 Hortonville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.4% of U.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, 43.2% 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 23.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.2%), and 13.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.2%).

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 Hortonville, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (43.1%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (7.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (7.1%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.7%), 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 (43.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (82.9%) 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 (7.6%) . 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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