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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 778 people and just one neighborhood, Fountain City is the 404th largest community in Wisconsin. Much of the housing stock in Fountain City was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Fountain City is a blue-collar town, with 43.38% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Fountain City is a city of production and manufacturing workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fountain City who work in healthcare suport services (8.68%), office and administrative support (6.94%), and management occupations (6.51%).

A relatively large number of people in Fountain City telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.76% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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

Fountain City’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Fountain City 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. Fountain City has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Fountain City than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Fountain City may be for you.

Demographics

The overall education level of Fountain City is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 26.61% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Fountain City in 2022 was $40,080, which is upper middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $160,320 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, Polish, Norwegian, Irish, and English.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Fountain City, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

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 18 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.1% of America.

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, 21.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry and 48.6% have German 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 Fountain City are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.7% 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 65.0% 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, 38.6% 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 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.6%), and 14.1% 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 97.5% of households.

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 Fountain City, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (48.6%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (21.9%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.9%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (48.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (77.5%) 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 (5.7%) and 5.7% 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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