Paddock Lake is a very small village located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 2,986 people and just one neighborhood, Paddock Lake is the 258th largest community in Wisconsin.
Paddock Lake is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Paddock Lake is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Paddock Lake who work in office and administrative support (19.22%), healthcare (11.85%), and architecture and engineering (9.29%).
In Paddock Lake, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.59 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small village, Paddock Lake does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Paddock Lake is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 30.21% of adults in Paddock Lake have a college degree.
The per capita income in Paddock Lake in 2022 was $46,180, which is wealthy relative to Wisconsin, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $184,720 for a family of four.
The people who call Paddock Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Paddock Lake residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Paddock Lake include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Paddock Lake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 40.9% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 1.2% have Lithuanian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Paddock Lake are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 73.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.8% 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 75.5% of America'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, 38.6% 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 23.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.5%), and 16.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.7% of households. Some people also speak Italian (8.2%).
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 Paddock Lake, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (40.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.9%), and residents who report Polish roots (7.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.6%), along with some English ancestry residents (7.5%), among others.
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 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 (87.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.