Weyerhaeuser is a tiny village located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 231 people and just one neighborhood, Weyerhaeuser is the 499th largest community in Wisconsin.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Weyerhaeuser is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 50.00% of the Weyerhaeuser workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Weyerhaeuser is a village of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Weyerhaeuser who work in sales jobs (12.79%), management occupations (11.63%), and office and administrative support (9.30%).
Overall, Weyerhaeuser’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
The village is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Weyerhaeuser has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Weyerhaeuser a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small village, Weyerhaeuser doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Weyerhaeuser ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.97% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Weyerhaeuser in 2022 was $32,880, which is lower middle income relative to Wisconsin, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $131,520 for a family of four. However, Weyerhaeuser contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Weyerhaeuser home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Weyerhaeuser residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Weyerhaeuser include German, Norwegian, Irish, Polish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Weyerhaeuser is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Portuguese.
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.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 49.6% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.8% of American neighborhoods.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 8 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.6% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 38.3% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 97.4% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Polish and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 14.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry and 9.1% have Norwegian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 15.0% 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 99.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Weyerhaeuser are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.4% 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 54.1% 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, 49.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 21.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.4%), and 10.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households. Some people also speak Polish (15.0%).
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 Weyerhaeuser, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.4%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (14.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.5%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (9.1%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.4%), 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 (30.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.6%) 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 (6.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.