Glenbeulah is a tiny village located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 460 people and just one neighborhood, Glenbeulah is the 460th largest community in Wisconsin. Much of the housing stock in Glenbeulah was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Unlike some villages, Glenbeulah isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Glenbeulah are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Glenbeulah is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Glenbeulah who work in office and administrative support (12.27%), healthcare (9.29%), and management occupations (9.29%).
Also of interest is that Glenbeulah has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Because of many things, Glenbeulah is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Glenbeulah really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Glenbeulah perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
As is often the case in a small village, Glenbeulah doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Glenbeulah is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 30.28% of adults in Glenbeulah have a college degree.
The per capita income in Glenbeulah in 2022 was $41,704, which is upper middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $166,816 for a family of four.
The people who call Glenbeulah home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Glenbeulah residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Glenbeulah include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, and Danish.
The most common language spoken in Glenbeulah is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Spanish.
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 Glenbeulah, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Of particular note, 14.7% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.0% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 41 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 53.7% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 2.3% have Croatian 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 Glenbeulah are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.0% 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 75.1% 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, 33.2% 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 32.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.0%), and 15.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.2%).
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 Glenbeulah, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (53.7%). There are also a number of people of Dutch ancestry (5.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.2%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (4.0%), 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 (46.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.