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Westfield - Oxford, WI

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Overview


Westfield - Oxford is a very small town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 3,637 people and just one neighborhood, Westfield - Oxford is the 216th largest community in Wisconsin.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Westfield - Oxford, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.19% of Westfield - Oxford’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Westfield - Oxford is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Westfield - Oxford who work in office and administrative support (10.07%), management occupations (8.57%), and food service (7.19%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.41% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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

Being a small town, Westfield - Oxford does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Westfield - Oxford rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.89% of adults 25 and older in Westfield - Oxford have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Westfield - Oxford in 2022 was $34,568, which is middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $138,272 for a family of four. However, Westfield - Oxford contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Westfield - Oxford home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Westfield - Oxford residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Westfield - Oxford include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Westfield - Oxford is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.

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

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 36.9% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 7.5% have Norwegian 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 Westfield - Oxford are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.0% 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, 33.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 25.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.1%), and 15.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.7%).

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 Westfield - Oxford, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (36.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.5%), and residents who report English roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (7.5%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (7.0%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

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 (10.9%) . 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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