Mazomanie - Black Earth is a very small town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 4,787 people and just one neighborhood, Mazomanie - Black Earth is the 165th largest community in Wisconsin.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Mazomanie - Black Earth is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mazomanie - Black Earth is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mazomanie - Black Earth who work in management occupations (10.92%), office and administrative support (10.72%), and sales jobs (7.66%).
Also of interest is that Mazomanie - Black Earth has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.35% 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.
Because of many things, Mazomanie - Black Earth is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Mazomanie - Black Earth a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Mazomanie - Black Earth has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Mazomanie - Black Earth’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
The education level of Mazomanie - Black Earth citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 30.31% of adults in Mazomanie - Black Earth have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Mazomanie - Black Earth in 2022 was $41,425, which is upper middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $165,700 for a family of four. However, Mazomanie - Black Earth contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Mazomanie - Black Earth home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mazomanie - Black Earth residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Mazomanie - Black Earth include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Mazomanie - Black Earth is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Mazomanie - Black Earth is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in WI, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 87.5% of the neighborhoods in Wisconsin. If you are considering retiring to Wisconsin, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 11.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 2.3% have Swiss 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 Mazomanie - Black Earth are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 61.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.6% 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, 40.7% 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 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.5%), and 14.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% of households.
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 Mazomanie - Black Earth, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (40.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.8%), and residents who report English roots (12.8%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (11.9%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.3%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.6%) 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 (8.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.