Boscobel - Blue River is a very small town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 4,406 people and just one neighborhood, Boscobel - Blue River is the 178th largest community in Wisconsin.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Boscobel - Blue River is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Boscobel - Blue River is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Boscobel - Blue River who work in office and administrative support (16.35%), sales jobs (9.16%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (8.33%).
Being a small town, Boscobel - Blue River does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Boscobel - Blue River rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.37% of adults 25 and older in Boscobel - Blue River have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Boscobel - Blue River in 2022 was $28,390, which is low income relative to Wisconsin, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $113,560 for a family of four. However, Boscobel - Blue River contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Boscobel - Blue River home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Boscobel - Blue River residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Boscobel - Blue River include German, Irish, Norwegian, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Boscobel - Blue River 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.
Of particular note, 10.3% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
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, 11.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 34.8% have German 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 Boscobel - Blue River are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.4% 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, 34.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.9%), and 19.1% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households.
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 Boscobel - Blue River, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (34.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.0%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (11.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.0%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (56.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.7%) 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 (11.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.