Eastman is a tiny village located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 341 people and just one neighborhood, Eastman is the 480th largest community in Wisconsin.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Eastman is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 53.52% of the Eastman workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Eastman is a village of transportation and shipping workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Eastman who work in management occupations (7.75%), sales jobs (7.04%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (5.63%).
Of important note, Eastman is also a village of artists. Eastman has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Eastman’s character.
Eastman’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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!) Eastman 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. Eastman has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Eastman than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Eastman may be for you.
Eastman 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.
The percentage of adults in Eastman with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.70% of adults in Eastman have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Eastman in 2022 was $32,265, 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 $129,060 for a family of four. However, Eastman contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Eastman home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Eastman residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Eastman include German, Norwegian, Irish, French, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in Eastman is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.
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.
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 96.5% of America.
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 3.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Yugoslav and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Yugoslav ancestry and 2.2% have Swiss ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.5% 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 Eastman are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.4% 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 59.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 41.0% 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 24.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.0%), and 14.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 96.8% 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 Eastman, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (37.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.0%), and residents who report English roots (9.5%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (7.4%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 (38.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.2%) 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 (11.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.