Deerbrook is a very small town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 2,474 people and just one neighborhood, Deerbrook is the 282nd largest community in Wisconsin.
Deerbrook is a blue-collar town, with 40.47% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Deerbrook is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Deerbrook who work in office and administrative support (15.39%), management occupations (10.91%), and sales jobs (6.92%).
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Deerbrook 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. Deerbrook has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Deerbrook than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Deerbrook may be for you.
The citizens of Deerbrook are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.30% of adults in Deerbrook have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Deerbrook in 2022 was $34,816, which is middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $139,264 for a family of four. However, Deerbrook contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Deerbrook home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Deerbrook residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Deerbrook include German, Polish, Czech, Irish, and Slavic.
The most common language spoken in Deerbrook is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 6.8% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 12 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 42.7% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.
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 Deerbrook are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.3% 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 70.2% 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 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.2%), and 14.8% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.8% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.1%).
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 Deerbrook, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (42.7%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (8.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (79.8%) 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 (10.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.