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Fountain City, WI

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Overview


Fountain City is a tiny city located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 781 people and just one neighborhood, Fountain City is the 404th largest community in Wisconsin.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Fountain City is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.84% of the Fountain City workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Fountain City is a city of production and manufacturing workers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Fountain City who work in healthcare suport services (10.82%), office and administrative support (10.38%), and management occupations (7.51%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The percentage of people in Fountain City who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 27.18% of adults in Fountain City have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Fountain City in 2018 was $39,187, which is upper middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $156,748 for a family of four. However, Fountain City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 18 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Polish and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry and 49.0% have German ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Fountain City are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.1% 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 67.7% of America'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, 37.4% 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 29.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.5%), and 14.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.6%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Fountain City, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (49.0%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (22.9%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (12.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.0%), along with some Swiss ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 (49.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (78.1%) 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 (7.1%) and 5.5% 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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