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Wheatland, WY

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Overview


Wheatland is a very small town located in the state of Wyoming. With a population of 3,509 people and just one neighborhood, Wheatland is the 23rd largest community in Wyoming.

Occupations and Workforce

Wheatland is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Wheatland is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Wheatland who work in management occupations (29.44%), office and administrative support (10.41%), and sales jobs (9.45%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Wheatland has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Wheatland a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One of the benefits of Wheatland is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 15.56 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

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

Demographics

The education level of Wheatland citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.96% of adults 25 and older in Wheatland have a college degree.

The per capita income in Wheatland in 2022 was $36,033, which is upper middle income relative to Wyoming and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $144,132 for a family of four. However, Wheatland contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Wheatland is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Wheatland home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wheatland residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Wheatland also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.88% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Wheatland include German, English, Swedish, Irish, and Dutch.

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

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

Length of Commute

Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 68.9% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.

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 12 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.6% of America.

People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.9%) living in the neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Canadian and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry and 5.9% have Swedish 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 Wheatland are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.9% 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, 40.4% 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 27.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.9%), and 8.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Wheatland, WY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (35.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.7%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (7.5%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (5.9%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (5.6%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (68.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (79.3%) 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 (9.5%) and 6.4% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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