Oconto Falls is a very small city located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 2,989 people and just one neighborhood, Oconto Falls is the 254th largest community in Wisconsin.
When you are in Oconto Falls, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.57% of Oconto Falls’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Oconto Falls is a city of production and manufacturing workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Oconto Falls who work in management occupations (8.21%), healthcare suport services (6.65%), and office and administrative support (6.41%).
Also of interest is that Oconto Falls has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Oconto Falls is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The education level of Oconto Falls citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.60% of adults in Oconto Falls have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Oconto Falls in 2022 was $27,364, which is low income relative to Wisconsin, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $109,456 for a family of four. However, Oconto Falls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Oconto Falls home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Oconto Falls residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Oconto Falls include German, Irish, Polish, Norwegian, and French Canadian.
The most common language spoken in Oconto Falls is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 50.4% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Oconto Falls are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.0% 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 55.0% of America'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, 42.0% 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 32.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (12.9%), and 12.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% of households. Some people also speak Polish (9.8%).
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 Oconto Falls, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (50.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.3%), and residents who report Polish roots (8.0%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (6.1%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.1%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.6%) 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 (8.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.