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Osseo, WI

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Overview


Osseo is a very small city located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 1,787 people and just one neighborhood, Osseo is the 319th largest community in Wisconsin.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Osseo isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Osseo are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Osseo is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Osseo who work in office and administrative support (12.79%), management occupations (10.16%), and food service (9.40%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The education level of Osseo citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 24.24% of adults in Osseo have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Osseo in 2022 was $33,530, 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 $134,120 for a family of four. However, Osseo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Osseo, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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 38 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.2% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 34.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry.

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 Osseo are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.7% 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, 35.1% 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 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.2%), and 14.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.7% 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 Osseo, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Norwegian (34.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (31.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.6%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (6.6%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.0%), 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 (36.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (76.4%) 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 (9.0%) . 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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