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Walworth, WI

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Overview


Walworth is a very small village located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 2,782 people and just one neighborhood, Walworth is the 267th largest community in Wisconsin.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages, Walworth isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Walworth are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Walworth is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Walworth who work in office and administrative support (12.14%), food service (10.25%), and management occupations (8.07%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The population of Walworth 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 Walworth, 23.17% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Walworth in 2022 was $29,501, which is lower middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $118,004 for a family of four. However, Walworth contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Walworth is a very ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Walworth home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Walworth residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Walworth also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.43% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Walworth include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Dutch.

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

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 Walworth, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Significantly, 0.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.2% 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 Walworth 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, 6.5% 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 60.0% 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, 33.7% 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 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.1%), and 16.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 82.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (16.8%).

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 Walworth, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.9%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (18.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (11.7%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.4%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.1%) 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 (10.0%) . 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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