Coleman is a tiny village located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 725 people and just one neighborhood, Coleman is the 414th largest community in Wisconsin.
When you are in Coleman, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.36% of Coleman’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Coleman is a village of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Coleman who work in management occupations (10.27%), sales jobs (8.90%), and healthcare (8.90%).
Also of interest is that Coleman has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Coleman is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Coleman with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.90% of adults in Coleman have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Coleman in 2022 was $27,958, 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 $111,832 for a family of four. However, Coleman contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Coleman home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Coleman residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Coleman include German, Polish, Irish, Czech, and English.
The most common language spoken in Coleman 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.
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 31 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.6% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Polish and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 17.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry and 1.4% have Belgian ancestry.
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 Coleman are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 40.1% 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 27.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.2%), and 11.0% 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 96.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Coleman, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (40.2%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (17.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.8%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.0%) 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 (11.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.