Clintonville is a very small city located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 4,509 people and just one neighborhood, Clintonville is the 173rd largest community in Wisconsin.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Clintonville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 48.88% of the Clintonville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Clintonville is a city of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Clintonville who work in healthcare (8.18%), office and administrative support (7.56%), and sales jobs (5.69%).
Also of interest is that Clintonville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
As is often the case in a small city, Clintonville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Clintonville citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.94% of adults in Clintonville have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Clintonville in 2022 was $33,646, which is middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $134,584 for a family of four. However, Clintonville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Clintonville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Clintonville residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Clintonville include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Clintonville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 45.5% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.4% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Austrian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 49.9% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 2.7% have Austrian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Clintonville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 5.0% 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 64.7% 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, 45.5% 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 29.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (12.3%), and 10.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 Clintonville, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (49.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.4%), and residents who report Italian roots (5.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.4%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (4.3%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.0%) 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 (9.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.