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Clear Lake - Clayton, WI

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Overview


Clear Lake - Clayton is a very small town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 3,942 people and just one neighborhood, Clear Lake - Clayton is the 202nd largest community in Wisconsin.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Clear Lake - Clayton, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.07% of Clear Lake - Clayton’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Clear Lake - Clayton is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Clear Lake - Clayton who work in management occupations (10.25%), sales jobs (9.64%), and office and administrative support (8.63%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

In terms of college education, Clear Lake - Clayton is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.06% of adults 25 and older in Clear Lake - Clayton have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Clear Lake - Clayton in 2018 was $34,772, which is middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $139,088 for a family of four. However, Clear Lake - Clayton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Clear Lake - Clayton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Clear Lake - Clayton residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Clear Lake - Clayton include German, Norwegian, Swedish, Irish, and French.

The most common language spoken in Clear Lake - Clayton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

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 45 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.1% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 11.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 18.8% have Norwegian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Clear Lake - Clayton are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 10.2% 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 50.3% 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, 36.8% 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 26.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.3%), and 13.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.3%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Clear Lake - Clayton, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (35.6%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (18.8%), and residents who report Swedish roots (11.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (83.5%) 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 (8.7%) . 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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