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Cuba City - Dickeyville, WI

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Overview


Cuba City - Dickeyville is a very small town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 4,378 people and just one neighborhood, Cuba City - Dickeyville is the 182nd largest community in Wisconsin.

Occupations and Workforce

Cuba City - Dickeyville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Cuba City - Dickeyville is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Cuba City - Dickeyville who work in management occupations (19.15%), office and administrative support (11.02%), and sales jobs (9.08%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.34% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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

Because of many things, Cuba City - Dickeyville is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Cuba City - Dickeyville a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Cuba City - Dickeyville has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Cuba City - Dickeyville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

As is often the case in a small town, Cuba City - Dickeyville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Cuba City - Dickeyville 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 Cuba City - Dickeyville, 23.91% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Cuba City - Dickeyville in 2018 was $36,705, which is middle income relative to Wisconsin, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $146,820 for a family of four. However, Cuba City - Dickeyville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Cuba City - Dickeyville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cuba City - Dickeyville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Cuba City - Dickeyville include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and Norwegian.

The most common language spoken in Cuba City - Dickeyville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

People

With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 88.2% of the neighborhoods in WI. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students. In addition to being an excellent choice for college students, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for families with school-aged children.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 44.4% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 1.8% have Swiss 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 Cuba City - Dickeyville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.3% 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 67.0% 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, 38.9% 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 27.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.6%), and 14.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.4%).

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 Cuba City - Dickeyville, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (44.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.2%), and residents who report English roots (10.1%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (3.5%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 (43.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (78.5%) 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 (6.0%) . 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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