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Wittenberg - Birnamwood, WI

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Overview


Wittenberg - Birnamwood is a very small town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 4,574 people and just one neighborhood, Wittenberg - Birnamwood is the 174th largest community in Wisconsin.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Wittenberg - Birnamwood is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.64% of the Wittenberg - Birnamwood workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Wittenberg - Birnamwood is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Wittenberg - Birnamwood who work in office and administrative support (12.24%), management occupations (8.67%), and sales jobs (7.69%).

A relatively large number of people in Wittenberg - Birnamwood telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.05% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The percentage of people in Wittenberg - Birnamwood with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.26% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Wittenberg - Birnamwood in 2022 was $32,087, which is lower middle income relative to Wisconsin, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $128,348 for a family of four. However, Wittenberg - Birnamwood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Wittenberg - Birnamwood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

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 92.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 45.9% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 2.5% have Native American ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 11.3% 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 98.6% 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 Wittenberg - Birnamwood are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 10.3% 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 50.0% 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, 35.1% 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 26.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.1%), and 15.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 98.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Wittenberg - Birnamwood, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (45.9%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (9.7%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (6.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.1%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (77.5%) 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 (10.1%) . 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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