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Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills, WI

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Overview


Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills is a very small town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 2,859 people and just one neighborhood, Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills is the 259th largest community in Wisconsin.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.26% of the Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills is a town of managers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills who work in management occupations (11.65%), office and administrative support (9.27%), and healthcare suport services (7.25%).

A relatively large number of people in Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.73% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

The town 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, Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.62% of the adults in Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills in 2022 was $32,571, 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 $130,284 for a family of four. However, Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills include German, Norwegian, Irish, English, and French.

The most common language spoken in Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Slavic languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 3.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 21 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.6% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more West Indian and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.1% of this neighborhood's residents have West Indian ancestry and 19.4% have Norwegian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.0% 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, 34.3% 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 30.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.5%), and 14.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

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 90.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include French and German/Yiddish.

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 Soldiers Grove - Gays Mills, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.7%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (19.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (17.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (10.3%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.8%), 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 (30.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (72.5%) 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 (15.4%) . 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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