Lomira - Theresa is a somewhat small town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 6,282 people and just one neighborhood, Lomira - Theresa is the 137th largest community in Wisconsin.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Lomira - Theresa is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.39% of the Lomira - Theresa workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Lomira - Theresa is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lomira - Theresa who work in office and administrative support (9.82%), management occupations (9.34%), and sales jobs (8.98%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.87% 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.
Being a small town, Lomira - Theresa does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Lomira - Theresa citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.85% of adults 25 and older in Lomira - Theresa have a college degree.
The per capita income in Lomira - Theresa in 2022 was $36,345, which is middle income relative to Wisconsin, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $145,380 for a family of four. However, Lomira - Theresa contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Lomira - Theresa home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lomira - Theresa residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lomira - Theresa include German, Irish, Polish, Norwegian, and English.
The most common language spoken in Lomira - Theresa is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 54.2% of this neighborhood's residents have German 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 Lomira - Theresa are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.4% 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 52.3% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 35.2% 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 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.8%), and 13.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.3% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.8%).
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 Lomira - Theresa, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (54.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.4%), and residents who report Polish roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (4.6%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.5%), 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 (37.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.7%) 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 (7.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.