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Poynette, WI

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Overview


Poynette is a very small village located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 2,575 people and just one neighborhood, Poynette is the 275th largest community in Wisconsin.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages, Poynette isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Poynette are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Poynette is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Poynette who work in office and administrative support (12.53%), sales jobs (11.13%), and management occupations (9.27%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

One downside of living in Poynette, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.29 minutes every day commuting to work.

Poynette 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 adults in Poynette who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.78% of the adults in Poynette have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Poynette in 2018 was $38,175, which is upper middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $152,700 for a family of four. However, Poynette contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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, 43.2% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 12.8% have Norwegian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Poynette are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 71.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.3% 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 77.8% 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 29.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.5%), and 15.9% 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 98.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

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 Poynette, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (43.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.5%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (12.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (10.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (5.4%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (78.5%) 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 (11.9%) . 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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