La Farge - Ontario is a very small town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 4,388 people and just one neighborhood, La Farge - Ontario is the 186th largest community in Wisconsin.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, La Farge - Ontario is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.55% of the La Farge - Ontario workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, La Farge - Ontario is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in La Farge - Ontario who work in management occupations (13.42%), office and administrative support (10.08%), and sales jobs (9.94%).
A relatively large number of people in La Farge - Ontario telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.08% 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.
Overall, La Farge - Ontario’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
The citizens of La Farge - Ontario are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.74% of adults in La Farge - Ontario have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in La Farge - Ontario in 2022 was $30,582, which is lower middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $122,328 for a family of four. However, La Farge - Ontario contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call La Farge - Ontario home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of La Farge - Ontario residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in La Farge - Ontario include German, Pennsylvania German, Norwegian, Irish, and English.
The most common language spoken in La Farge - Ontario is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 La Farge - Ontario, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.3% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 31 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.5% of America.
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, 13.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 21.6% 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 99.8% 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 La Farge - Ontario are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.0% 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, 33.2% 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 30.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.5%), and 15.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 75.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish, Spanish and Polish.
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 La Farge - Ontario, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.2%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (71.7%) 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 (14.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.