Allenton is a tiny town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 859 people and just one neighborhood, Allenton is the 397th largest community in Wisconsin.
Allenton real estate is some of the most expensive in Wisconsin, although Allenton house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Allenton is a blue-collar town, with 42.09% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Allenton is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Allenton who work in office and administrative support (13.38%), food service (13.14%), and farm management occupations (10.22%).
Another important characteristic of Allenton is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.
Of important note, Allenton is also a town of artists. Allenton has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Allenton’s character.
Because of many things, Allenton is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Allenton really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Allenton perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
Allenton is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Allenton isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 96.59% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
Allenton 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.
The education level of Allenton citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.42% of adults in Allenton have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Allenton in 2022 was $29,164, which is lower middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $116,656 for a family of four. However, Allenton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Allenton is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Allenton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Allenton residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Allenton also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.87% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Allenton include German, Irish, Italian, Polish, and Serbian.
The most common language spoken in Allenton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, is among the best neighborhoods for families in Wisconsin. In fact, this neighborhood is more family-friendly than 97.1% of neighborhoods in the entire state of Wisconsin. Its combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes gives this area the look and feel of a "Leave It to Beaver" episode. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a strong sense of community. In addition, the high number of college-educated parents influences the academic success of the local schools. Overall, you will find all of the amenities a family needs to thrive in the neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 46.8% have German ancestry.
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 Allenton are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 76.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.9% 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 75.6% 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, 34.9% 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 29.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.6%), and 12.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 93.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Allenton, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (46.8%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (7.2%), along with some Finnish ancestry residents (3.2%), among others.
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 (37.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.2%) 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.