Star Prairie is a tiny village located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 664 people and two associated neighborhoods, Star Prairie is the 420th largest community in Wisconsin.Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Star Prairie is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Star Prairie is a village of service providers, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Star Prairie who work in healthcare suport services (16.47%), office and administrative support (8.82%), and food service (8.53%). A relatively large number of people in Star Prairie telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.70% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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. Overall, Star Prairie’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern. It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Star Prairie has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Star Prairie has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Star Prairie than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Star Prairie may be for you. Being a small village, Star Prairie does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, the citizens of Star Prairie rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.70% of adults 25 and older in Star Prairie have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community. The per capita income in Star Prairie in 2022 was $37,254, 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 $149,016 for a family of four. However, Star Prairie contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Star Prairie home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Star Prairie residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Star Prairie include German, Norwegian, Swedish, Irish, and English. The most common language spoken in Star Prairie is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
