Rib Lake is a tiny village located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 926 people and just one neighborhood, Rib Lake is the 389th largest community in Wisconsin. Rib Lake has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Rib Lake is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.40% of the Rib Lake workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Rib Lake is a village of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Rib Lake who work in sales jobs (14.40%), management occupations (11.36%), and teaching (8.31%).
Rib Lake’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
It is a fairly quiet village 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!) Rib Lake 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. Rib Lake has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Rib Lake than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Rib Lake may be for you.
Being a small village, Rib Lake does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Rib Lake is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.89% of adults 25 and older in Rib Lake have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Rib Lake in 2022 was $26,132, 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 $104,528 for a family of four. However, Rib Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Rib Lake is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Rib Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rib Lake residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Rib Lake include German, Polish, Irish, English, and Czech.
The most common language spoken in Rib Lake 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.
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 95.5% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 49.4% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 12.4% have Polish 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 Rib Lake are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.1% 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 61.1% of America'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, 40.4% 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 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.8%), and 9.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.2%).
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 Rib Lake, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (49.4%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.5%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 (40.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (73.0%) 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 (11.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.