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Helenville, WI

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Overview


Helenville is a tiny town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 238 people and just one neighborhood, Helenville is the 497th largest community in Wisconsin. Helenville has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Helenville real estate is some of the most expensive in Wisconsin, although Helenville house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Helenville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.50% of Helenville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Helenville is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Helenville who work in computer science and math (13.45%), business and financial occupations (11.76%), and management occupations (6.72%).

Also of interest is that Helenville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Helenville has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Helenville is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Helenville really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Helenville perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Helenville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Helenville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Helenville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Helenville may be for you.

One downside of living in Helenville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.35 minutes every day commuting to work.

Helenville is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Helenville isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 96.64% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

As is often the case in a small town, Helenville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Helenville overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Helenville, 23.77% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Helenville in 2018 was $43,666, which is wealthy relative to Wisconsin, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $174,664 for a family of four.

The people who call Helenville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Helenville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Helenville include German, Italian, English, French, and Austrian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Helenville is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in WI, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 86.3% of the neighborhoods in Wisconsin. If you are considering retiring to Wisconsin, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 49.8% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 7.8% have Norwegian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.7% 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 97.5% 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 Helenville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 66.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.0% 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 58.5% 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, 37.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 32.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.4%), and 13.6% 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 99.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Helenville, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (49.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.0%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.3%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (5.9%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.6%) 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 (8.2%) . 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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