Osseo is a very small city located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 1,787 people and just one neighborhood, Osseo is the 319th largest community in Wisconsin.
Unlike some cities, Osseo isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Osseo are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Osseo is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Osseo who work in food service (12.45%), office and administrative support (12.23%), and sales jobs (9.83%).
A relatively large number of people in Osseo telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.90% 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.
Osseo 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 percentage of adults in Osseo who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.23% of the adults in Osseo have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Osseo in 2022 was $31,134, 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 $124,536 for a family of four. However, Osseo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Osseo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Osseo residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Osseo include Norwegian, German, Irish, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Osseo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Scandinavian languages.
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 38 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.2% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 35.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 33.6% have German ancestry.
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 Osseo are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.9% 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 50.9% 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, 33.3% 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 29.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.4%), and 13.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households.
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 Osseo, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Norwegian (35.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (33.6%), and residents who report Polish roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.3%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.0%), 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 (39.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.4%) 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 (7.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.