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Westby, WI

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Overview


Westby is a very small city located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 2,348 people and just one neighborhood, Westby is the 291st largest community in Wisconsin.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Westby isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Westby are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Westby is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Westby who work in office and administrative support (10.56%), sales jobs (10.56%), and management occupations (10.38%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The overall education level of Westby is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 25.63% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Westby in 2018 was $31,001, which is middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $124,004 for a family of four. However, Westby contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 44.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 1.8% have Swiss 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 Westby are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.9% 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 56.7% 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, 30.8% 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 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.1%), and 17.5% 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 96.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

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 Westby, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Norwegian (44.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (36.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.6%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (2.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (82.8%) 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 (11.3%) . 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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