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Weyauwega, WI

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Overview


Weyauwega is a very small city located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 1,768 people and just one neighborhood, Weyauwega is the 321st largest community in Wisconsin.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Weyauwega is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 46.72% of the Weyauwega workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Weyauwega is a city of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Weyauwega who work in office and administrative support (11.31%), sales jobs (6.87%), and healthcare suport services (5.92%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Weyauwega’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

Demographics

The citizens of Weyauwega are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.74% of adults in Weyauwega have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Weyauwega in 2018 was $27,746, which is low income relative to Wisconsin, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $110,984 for a family of four. However, Weyauwega contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Weyauwega is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.

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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 39.0% of this neighborhood's residents have German 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 Weyauwega are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.7% 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 59.5% 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, 36.9% 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 24.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.6%), and 16.3% 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 96.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 Weyauwega, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (39.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (5.9%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (4.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (76.7%) 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 (8.0%) . 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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