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Orfordville - Footville, WI

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Overview


Orfordville - Footville is a somewhat small town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 5,195 people and just one neighborhood, Orfordville - Footville is the 158th largest community in Wisconsin. Orfordville - Footville has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Orfordville - Footville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.26% of the Orfordville - Footville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Orfordville - Footville is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Orfordville - Footville who work in office and administrative support (11.81%), management occupations (11.51%), and sales jobs (6.67%).

A relatively large number of people in Orfordville - Footville telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.88% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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 percentage of adults in Orfordville - Footville who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.20% of the adults in Orfordville - Footville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Orfordville - Footville in 2018 was $38,398, which is upper middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $153,592 for a family of four. However, Orfordville - Footville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Orfordville - Footville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.

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

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 14.8% have Norwegian ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Orfordville - Footville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 56.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.9% 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 50.9% 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, 35.7% 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 30.6% 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 16.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.8%).

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 Orfordville - Footville, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.5%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (14.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (10.3%), along with some Swiss ancestry residents (5.1%), 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 (37.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.4%) 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 (6.7%) . 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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