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Cornell, WI

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Overview


Cornell is a very small city located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 1,424 people and just one neighborhood, Cornell is the 341st largest community in Wisconsin.

Occupations and Workforce

Cornell is a blue-collar town, with 44.09% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Cornell is a city of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cornell who work in healthcare suport services (12.12%), office and administrative support (11.09%), and management occupations (6.28%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Cornell has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Cornell has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cornell than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cornell may be for you.

As is often the case in a small city, Cornell doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Cornell with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.56% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Cornell in 2022 was $35,301, 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 $141,204 for a family of four. However, Cornell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Cornell home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cornell residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Cornell include German, Czech, Norwegian, Polish, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in Cornell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Chinese.

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 Cornell, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 42.5% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.7% of American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 33 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Cornell are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.6% 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, 42.5% 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 22.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.6%), and 13.4% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% of households. Some people also speak Polish (6.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Cornell, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.7%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (10.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.8%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (6.4%), along with some English ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (77.6%) 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 (10.0%) . 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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