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Whitehall - Pigeon Falls, WI

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Overview


Whitehall - Pigeon Falls is a very small town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 4,070 people and just one neighborhood, Whitehall - Pigeon Falls is the 196th largest community in Wisconsin.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Whitehall - Pigeon Falls is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.28% of the Whitehall - Pigeon Falls workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Whitehall - Pigeon Falls is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Whitehall - Pigeon Falls who work in management occupations (11.57%), office and administrative support (7.94%), and sales jobs (7.85%).

A relatively large number of people in Whitehall - Pigeon Falls telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.74% 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

The overall crime rate in Whitehall - Pigeon Falls is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Whitehall - Pigeon Falls rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.31% of adults 25 and older in Whitehall - Pigeon Falls have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Whitehall - Pigeon Falls in 2022 was $32,175, 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 $128,700 for a family of four. However, Whitehall - Pigeon Falls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Whitehall - Pigeon Falls is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish 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 Whitehall - Pigeon Falls, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 28.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 13.6% have Polish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 15.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.4% 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 Whitehall - Pigeon Falls are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.7% 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 54.0% 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, 36.7% 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 31.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.7%), and 13.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish, German/Yiddish and Spanish.

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 Whitehall - Pigeon Falls, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.3%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (28.3%), and residents who report Polish roots (13.6%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (6.6%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (6.1%), 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 (43.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (77.2%) 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 (11.6%) . 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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