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Prairie Farm, WI

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Overview


Prairie Farm is a tiny village located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 498 people and just one neighborhood, Prairie Farm is the 455th largest community in Wisconsin.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Prairie Farm, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 48.25% of Prairie Farm’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Prairie Farm is a village of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Prairie Farm who work in office and administrative support (13.64%), healthcare suport services (9.09%), and maintenance occupations (7.69%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

The village is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Prairie Farm has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Prairie Farm a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Demographics

The population of Prairie Farm has a very low overall level of education: only 9.12% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Prairie Farm in 2022 was $26,109, 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 $104,436 for a family of four. However, Prairie Farm contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Prairie Farm is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.1% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 94.1% of the neighborhoods in America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

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, 22.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 1.5% 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 Prairie Farm are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.9% 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, 37.1% 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 27.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.4%), and 14.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.6% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Prairie Farm, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (36.1%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (22.3%), and residents who report English roots (6.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.3%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (4.8%), 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 (32.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (75.6%) 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 (11.7%) . 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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