Cecil is a tiny village located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 530 people and just one neighborhood, Cecil is the 449th largest community in Wisconsin. Cecil has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Cecil, where the median household income is $77,115.00.
Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Cecil is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cecil is a village of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Cecil who work in management occupations (14.90%), sales jobs (12.25%), and office and administrative support (9.60%).
Of important note, Cecil is also a village of artists. Cecil has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Cecil’s character.
It is a fairly quiet village 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!) Cecil 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. Cecil has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cecil than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cecil may be for you.
One downside of living in Cecil, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.34 minutes every day commuting to work.
Cecil is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, Cecil is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.49% of adults 25 and older in Cecil have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cecil in 2022 was $45,003, which is upper middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $180,012 for a family of four.
Cecil is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Cecil home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cecil residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Cecil also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.29% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Cecil include German, Polish, French, Irish, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Cecil is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Cecil, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 90.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 46.7% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 12.3% 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 98.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Cecil are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.0% 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 55.1% of America'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, 34.1% 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 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.8%), and 12.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 93.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.
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 Cecil, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (46.7%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.3%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (5.2%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (4.5%), among others.
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 (34.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.4%) 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 (8.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.