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Spring Valley - Elmwood, WI

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Overview


Spring Valley - Elmwood is a very small town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 2,854 people and just one neighborhood, Spring Valley - Elmwood is the 262nd largest community in Wisconsin. Spring Valley - Elmwood 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

Spring Valley - Elmwood is a blue-collar town, with 36.54% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Spring Valley - Elmwood is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Spring Valley - Elmwood who work in management occupations (10.32%), office and administrative support (7.95%), and sales jobs (7.37%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Spring Valley - Elmwood is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Spring Valley - Elmwood really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Spring Valley - Elmwood perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Demographics

The education level of Spring Valley - Elmwood citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 24.45% of adults in Spring Valley - Elmwood have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Spring Valley - Elmwood in 2018 was $32,675, which is middle income relative to Wisconsin, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $130,700 for a family of four. However, Spring Valley - Elmwood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Spring Valley - Elmwood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish 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.

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 44 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.4% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 19.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 39.0% 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 Spring Valley - Elmwood are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.8% 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, 34.4% 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 32.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.1%), and 12.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Spring Valley - Elmwood, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (39.0%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (19.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.5%), along with some Polish 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 (30.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.5%) 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 (8.8%) . 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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