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Blue Mounds, WI

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Overview


Blue Mounds is a tiny village located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 919 people and just one neighborhood, Blue Mounds is the 385th largest community in Wisconsin.

Blue Mounds home prices are not only among the most expensive in Wisconsin, but Blue Mounds real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages, Blue Mounds isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Blue Mounds are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Blue Mounds is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Blue Mounds who work in office and administrative support (13.43%), management occupations (11.94%), and personal care services (10.87%).

Also of interest is that Blue Mounds has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

A relatively large number of people in Blue Mounds telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 15.05% 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

Overall, Blue Mounds’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

Being a small village, Blue Mounds does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The education level of Blue Mounds citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 31.33% of adults in Blue Mounds have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Blue Mounds in 2022 was $38,207, which is upper middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $152,828 for a family of four. However, Blue Mounds contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Blue Mounds is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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.

People

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 95.3% of neighborhoods in WI. If a Wisconsin retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit. In addition to being an excellent choice for active retirees, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for highly educated executives and families with school-aged children.

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, 6.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 16.0% have Norwegian ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Blue Mounds are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 80.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.3% 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 74.0% 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, 53.3% 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 17.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.4%), and 10.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.7% of households.

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 Blue Mounds, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (40.4%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (16.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.7%), along with some Swiss ancestry residents (6.6%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (63.9%) 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 (9.3%) . 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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