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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Fond du Lac Southwest median real estate price is $190,763, which is less expensive than 79.8% of Wisconsin neighborhoods and 80.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in Fond du Lac Southwest is currently $1,526, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 42.7% of Wisconsin neighborhoods.

Fond du Lac Southwest is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

Fond du Lac Southwest real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Fond du Lac Southwest neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built before 1940.

In Fond du Lac Southwest, the current vacancy rate is 2.5%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 83.6% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Fond du Lac Southwest is very tight compared to the demand for property here.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

People

In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the Fond du Lac Southwest neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.

Diversity

Did you know that the Fond du Lac Southwest neighborhood has more South American and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 12.1% of this neighborhood's residents have South American ancestry and 40.9% have German ancestry.

Fond du Lac Southwest 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.

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 Fond du Lac Southwest neighborhood in Fond du Lac are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% 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 Fond du Lac Southwest neighborhood, 35.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 29.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.4%), and 15.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

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 Fond du Lac Southwest neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Polish and Italian.

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 Fond du Lac Southwest neighborhood in Fond du Lac, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (40.9%). There are also a number of people of South American ancestry (12.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.7%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (5.2%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.7%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 Fond du Lac Southwest neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (54.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (76.7%) 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 (19.9%) . 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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