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Highland - Avoca, WI

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Overview


Highland - Avoca is a very small town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 3,013 people and just one neighborhood, Highland - Avoca is the 249th largest community in Wisconsin.

Occupations and Workforce

Highland - Avoca is a blue-collar town, with 35.67% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Highland - Avoca is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Highland - Avoca who work in management occupations (13.16%), office and administrative support (12.24%), and sales jobs (8.30%).

A relatively large number of people in Highland - Avoca telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.15% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Highland - Avoca who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.09% of the adults in Highland - Avoca have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Highland - Avoca in 2022 was $34,492, which is lower middle income relative to Wisconsin, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $137,968 for a family of four. However, Highland - Avoca contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Highland - Avoca home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Highland - Avoca residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Highland - Avoca include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, and Czech.

The most common language spoken in Highland - Avoca is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.

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.

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 18 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.1% of America.

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, 43.0% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 10.1% have Norwegian ancestry.

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 Highland - Avoca are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.9% 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, 32.7% 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 32.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.1%), and 15.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Highland - Avoca, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (43.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.7%), and residents who report English roots (10.2%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (10.1%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (72.1%) 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 (13.8%) . 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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