Poynette is a very small village located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 2,575 people and just one neighborhood, Poynette is the 275th largest community in Wisconsin.
Unlike some villages, Poynette isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Poynette are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Poynette is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Poynette who work in office and administrative support (12.53%), sales jobs (11.13%), and management occupations (9.27%).
The overall crime rate in Poynette is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
One downside of living in Poynette is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Poynette, the average commute to work is 31.29 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Poynette is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Poynette who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.78% of the adults in Poynette have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Poynette in 2022 was $38,175, which is upper middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $152,700 for a family of four. However, Poynette contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Poynette home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Poynette residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Poynette include German, Irish, Norwegian, English, and European.
The most common language spoken in Poynette is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish 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 Poynette, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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, 43.2% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 12.8% have Norwegian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Poynette are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 71.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.3% 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 77.8% 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, 33.6% 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 29.5% 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 15.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Poynette, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (43.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.5%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (12.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (10.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (5.4%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (78.5%) 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 (11.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.