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Argyle - Blanchardville, WI

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Overview


Argyle - Blanchardville is a very small town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 3,014 people and just one neighborhood, Argyle - Blanchardville is the 255th largest community in Wisconsin. Much of the housing stock in Argyle - Blanchardville was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Argyle - Blanchardville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Argyle - Blanchardville is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Argyle - Blanchardville who work in management occupations (16.59%), office and administrative support (13.70%), and sales jobs (6.43%).

A relatively large number of people in Argyle - Blanchardville telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.36% 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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Argyle - Blanchardville who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.75% of the adults in Argyle - Blanchardville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Argyle - Blanchardville in 2022 was $35,675, which is middle income relative to Wisconsin, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $142,700 for a family of four. However, Argyle - Blanchardville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Argyle - Blanchardville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Argyle - Blanchardville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Argyle - Blanchardville include Norwegian, German, Irish, English, and Swiss.

The most common language spoken in Argyle - Blanchardville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.9% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 26 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 25.7% have Norwegian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Argyle - Blanchardville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.9% 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, 36.2% 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 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.7%), and 14.4% 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 95.2% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (3.4%).

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 Argyle - Blanchardville, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Norwegian (25.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (25.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (11.6%), along with some Swiss ancestry residents (10.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (27.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (76.5%) 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 (6.5%) . 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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