Boscobel - Blue River is a very small town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 4,406 people and just one neighborhood, Boscobel - Blue River is the 178th largest community in Wisconsin.
Unlike some towns, Boscobel - Blue River isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Boscobel - Blue River are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Boscobel - Blue River is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Boscobel - Blue River who work in office and administrative support (16.35%), sales jobs (9.16%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (8.33%).
As is often the case in a small town, Boscobel - Blue River doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Boscobel - Blue River are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.37% of adults in Boscobel - Blue River have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Boscobel - Blue River in 2022 was $28,390, 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 $113,560 for a family of four. However, Boscobel - Blue River contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Boscobel - Blue River home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Boscobel - Blue River residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Boscobel - Blue River include German, Irish, Norwegian, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Boscobel - Blue River is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Boscobel - Blue River, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Of particular note, 10.3% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
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, 11.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 34.8% 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 Boscobel - Blue River are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.4% 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, 34.0% 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 25.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.9%), and 19.1% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% 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 Boscobel - Blue River, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (34.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.0%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (11.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.0%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.5%), among others.
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 (56.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.7%) 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 (11.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.