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Rib Lake, WI

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Overview


Rib Lake is a tiny village located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 926 people and just one neighborhood, Rib Lake is the 389th largest community in Wisconsin. Much of the housing stock in Rib Lake was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Rib Lake is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.40% of the Rib Lake workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Rib Lake is a village of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Rib Lake who work in sales jobs (14.40%), management occupations (11.36%), and teaching (8.31%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Rib Lake 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.

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, Rib Lake has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Rib Lake a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Being a small village, Rib Lake does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Rib Lake is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.89% of adults 25 and older in Rib Lake have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Rib Lake in 2022 was $26,132, which is low income relative to Wisconsin, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $104,528 for a family of four. However, Rib Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Rib Lake is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Rib Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rib Lake residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Rib Lake include German, Polish, Irish, English, and Czech.

The most common language spoken in Rib Lake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 3.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 19 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 49.4% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 12.4% have Polish ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Rib Lake are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.1% 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 61.1% 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, 40.4% 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 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.8%), and 9.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.2%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Rib Lake, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (49.4%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.5%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (3.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (40.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (73.0%) 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 (11.8%) . 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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