King is a very small town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 1,242 people and just one neighborhood, King is the 362nd largest community in Wisconsin.
King is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, King is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in King who work in sales jobs (17.92%), healthcare (12.72%), and food service (11.56%).
King’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, King has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes King a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 10.39 minutes getting to work every day.
King is a small town, 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 people in King with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.19% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in King in 2022 was $30,581, which is lower middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $122,324 for a family of four. However, King contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call King home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of King residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in King include German, Polish, Norwegian, English, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in King is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 King, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
If you are planning to retire in Wisconsin, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Wisconsin, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 99.9% of neighborhoods in WI. If a Wisconsin retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.
In addition, there is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.7%) living in the neighborhood.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 88.7% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.8% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 1.6% have Finnish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.8% 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 King are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 18.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.4% of U.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, 33.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (26.9%), and 10.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households.
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 King, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (36.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.0%), and residents who report Polish roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (6.8%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.6%), 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 (48.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (88.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.