Lyndon Station is a tiny village located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 494 people and just one neighborhood, Lyndon Station is the 454th largest community in Wisconsin. Lyndon Station has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Lyndon Station is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lyndon Station is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lyndon Station who work in office and administrative support (18.75%), sales jobs (12.50%), and management occupations (10.80%).
Lyndon Station’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
It is a fairly quiet village 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!) Lyndon Station 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. Lyndon Station has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lyndon Station than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lyndon Station may be for you.
Lyndon Station 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.
In terms of college education, Lyndon Station ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 4.86% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Lyndon Station in 2022 was $21,501, which is low income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $86,004 for a family of four. However, Lyndon Station contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lyndon Station is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Lyndon Station home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lyndon Station residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lyndon Station include German, Polish, Norwegian, Irish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Lyndon Station is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Native American languages.
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.
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 28 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.1% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 0.8% 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 Lyndon Station are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 22.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.3% of U.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, 32.4% 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 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.3%), and 15.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.8% of households.
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 Lyndon Station, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (34.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.7%), and residents who report Polish roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (8.3%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.5%), 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 (47.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.9%) 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 (11.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.