Peshtigo is a very small city located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 3,390 people and just one neighborhood, Peshtigo is the 225th largest community in Wisconsin.
When you are in Peshtigo, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.31% of Peshtigo’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Peshtigo is a city of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Peshtigo who work in management occupations (11.89%), healthcare (9.05%), and teaching (5.97%).
Also of interest is that Peshtigo has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Peshtigo rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.79% of adults 25 and older in Peshtigo have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Peshtigo in 2022 was $31,397, which is lower middle income relative to Wisconsin, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $125,588 for a family of four. However, Peshtigo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Peshtigo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Peshtigo residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Peshtigo include German, Polish, French, Irish, and French Canadian.
The most common language spoken in Peshtigo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 4.2% have French Canadian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 13.8% 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 99.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Peshtigo are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.1% 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 52.9% 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, 36.3% 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 34.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.3%), and 11.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% of households. Some people also speak Polish (13.8%).
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 Peshtigo, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (38.3%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (10.2%), and residents who report French roots (7.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.4%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (4.2%), 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 (43.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.2%) 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 (8.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.