Sharon - Darien is a somewhat small town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 5,480 people and just one neighborhood, Sharon - Darien is the 152nd largest community in Wisconsin.
When you are in Sharon - Darien, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.77% of Sharon - Darien’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Sharon - Darien is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Sharon - Darien who work in office and administrative support (12.68%), management occupations (8.20%), and food service (6.35%).
The citizens of Sharon - Darien are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.37% of adults in Sharon - Darien have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Sharon - Darien in 2022 was $32,288, 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 $129,152 for a family of four. However, Sharon - Darien contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Sharon - Darien is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Sharon - Darien home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sharon - Darien residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Sharon - Darien also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 19.71% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Sharon - Darien include German, Norwegian, Irish, English, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Sharon - Darien is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Other Indo-European.
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 Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 11.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry.
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 Sharon - Darien are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.6% of U.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, 35.1% 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 27.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.3%), and 16.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 82.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (16.1%).
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 Sharon - Darien, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.6%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (18.3%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (11.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.9%), along with some English ancestry residents (8.4%), among others. In addition, 10.5% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (42.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
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 (9.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.