Blair is a very small city located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 1,280 people and just one neighborhood, Blair is the 353rd largest community in Wisconsin.
Blair is a blue-collar town, with 44.87% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Blair is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Blair who work in office and administrative support (14.42%), management occupations (9.29%), and healthcare suport services (8.17%).
The overall crime rate in Blair is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
Blair is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In Blair, just 12.58% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Blair in 2022 was $34,048, which is middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $136,192 for a family of four. However, Blair contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Blair home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Blair residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Blair include Norwegian, German, Polish, Italian, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Blair is English. Other important languages spoken here include Scandinavian languages 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.
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 93.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 40.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 9.8% have Polish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.5% 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 98.5% 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 Blair are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.7% 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 51.5% 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, 33.8% 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 29.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.4%), and 16.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.7% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (3.5%).
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 Blair, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Norwegian (40.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (29.6%), and residents who report Polish roots (9.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.5%), along with some English ancestry residents (2.6%), 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 (33.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.2%) 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 (10.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.