Jim Falls is a tiny town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 231 people and just one neighborhood, Jim Falls is the 500th largest community in Wisconsin. Jim Falls has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
When you are in Jim Falls, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 52.67% of Jim Falls’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Jim Falls is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Jim Falls who work in office and administrative support (22.90%), law enforcement and fire fighting (7.63%), and community and social services (6.87%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 18.32% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Because of many things, Jim Falls is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Jim Falls a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Jim Falls has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Jim Falls’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
The town 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, Jim Falls has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Jim Falls a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 17.59 minutes getting to work every day.
Being a small town, Jim Falls does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Jim Falls is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 27.98% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Jim Falls in 2022 was $41,573, which is upper middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $166,292 for a family of four. However, Jim Falls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Jim Falls home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Jim Falls residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Jim Falls include German, Welsh, Irish, Norwegian, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Jim Falls is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 6.7% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Wisconsin. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 42 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 42.3% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 10.4% 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.
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 Jim Falls are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.3% 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 80.3% of America'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, 36.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 32.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.3%), and 14.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households. Some people also speak Polish (6.4%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Jim Falls, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (42.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.9%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (6.9%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.3%), 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 (45.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.5%) 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.