It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Onalaska 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. Onalaska has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Onalaska than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Onalaska may be for you.
Being a small city, Onalaska does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Onalaska with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.69% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Onalaska in 2022 was $29,257, which is middle income relative to Texas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $117,028 for a family of four. However, Onalaska contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Onalaska is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Onalaska home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Onalaska residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Onalaska also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.67% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Onalaska include Irish, German, English, Polish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Onalaska is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
