Augusta - Fairchild is a somewhat small town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 5,087 people and just one neighborhood, Augusta - Fairchild is the 161st largest community in Wisconsin.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Augusta - Fairchild is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.70% of the Augusta - Fairchild workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Augusta - Fairchild is a town of managers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Augusta - Fairchild who work in management occupations (12.97%), office and administrative support (9.44%), and sales jobs (6.65%).
A relatively large number of people in Augusta - Fairchild telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.89% 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.
Being a small town, Augusta - Fairchild does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Augusta - Fairchild with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.20% of adults in Augusta - Fairchild have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Augusta - Fairchild in 2022 was $31,192, 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 $124,768 for a family of four. However, Augusta - Fairchild contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Augusta - Fairchild home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Augusta - Fairchild residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Augusta - Fairchild include German, Norwegian, Irish, Polish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Augusta - Fairchild is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and French.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 27 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 12.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 35.3% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.5% 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 99.5% 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 Augusta - Fairchild are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.9% 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, 36.3% 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 30.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.9%), and 15.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.9% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (8.5%).
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 Augusta - Fairchild, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (35.3%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.6%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (6.2%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.8%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (28.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (72.3%) 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 (12.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.