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Pittsville, WI

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Overview


Pittsville is a tiny city located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 818 people and just one neighborhood, Pittsville is the 403rd largest community in Wisconsin.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Pittsville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.08% of the Pittsville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Pittsville is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pittsville who work in office and administrative support (13.12%), management occupations (8.60%), and healthcare suport services (7.96%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 13.17% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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

It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Pittsville 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. Pittsville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pittsville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pittsville may be for you.

Pittsville is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Pittsville is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.34% of adults 25 and older in Pittsville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Pittsville in 2022 was $31,252, 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 $125,008 for a family of four. However, Pittsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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 Pittsville, 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 13 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.4% 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, 57.2% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 7.5% 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 Pittsville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.7% 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 58.9% of America'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, 38.0% 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 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.9%), and 16.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% 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 Pittsville, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (57.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.1%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (9.0%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (7.5%), 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 (39.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (76.3%) 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 (8.9%) . 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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