Barron is a very small city located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 3,663 people and just one neighborhood, Barron is the 211th largest community in Wisconsin.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Barron is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.49% of the Barron workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Barron is a city of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Barron who work in healthcare suport services (8.84%), sales jobs (8.37%), and maintenance occupations (6.53%).
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Barron spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.72 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
Being a small city, Barron does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Barron with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.28% of adults in Barron have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Barron in 2022 was $23,532, which is low income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $94,128 for a family of four.
Barron is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Barron home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Barron residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Barron include German, Norwegian, Somalian, Irish, and English.
In addition, Barron has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (16.33%).
The most common language spoken in Barron is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.6%) living in the neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 16.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 5.4% have Swedish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak African languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Barron are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.0% 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, 39.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 24.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.6%), and 12.0% 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 89.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Polish and African languages.
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 Barron, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.0%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (16.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.1%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (10.0%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.8%), among others. In addition, 11.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (45.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (75.9%) 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 (14.6%) and 6.1% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.