Black River Falls is a very small city located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 3,587 people and just one neighborhood, Black River Falls is the 218th largest community in Wisconsin.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Black River Falls is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Black River Falls is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Black River Falls who work in sales jobs (12.44%), maintenance occupations (8.32%), and management occupations (6.78%).
The city 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, Black River Falls has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Black River Falls a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 17.66 minutes getting to work every day.
Black River Falls is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, Black River Falls is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.97% of adults 25 and older in Black River Falls have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Black River Falls in 2022 was $35,934, which is middle income relative to Wisconsin, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $143,736 for a family of four. However, Black River Falls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Black River Falls home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Black River Falls residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Black River Falls include German, Norwegian, Irish, English, and French.
The most common language spoken in Black River Falls is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Polish.
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.
Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Black River Falls neighborhood.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 58.5% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 23.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 4.7% have Native American 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 Black River Falls are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 32.6% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (29.1%), and 10.9% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.4%).
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 Black River Falls, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.9%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (23.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.4%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (4.7%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (58.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.9%) 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 (12.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.