Dresser is a tiny village located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 939 people and just one neighborhood, Dresser is the 389th largest community in Wisconsin.
Dresser is a blue-collar town, with 40.91% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Dresser is a village of service providers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Dresser who work in food service (9.85%), business and financial occupations (8.14%), and teaching (6.82%).
A relatively large number of people in Dresser telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.46% 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.
As is often the case in a small village, Dresser doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Dresser are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.52% of adults in Dresser having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Dresser in 2022 was $32,901, which is lower middle income relative to Wisconsin, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $131,604 for a family of four. However, Dresser contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Dresser is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Dresser home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dresser residents report their race to be White. Dresser also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.15% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Dresser include German, Norwegian, Swedish, English, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Dresser is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Scandinavian languages.
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.
Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 20.0% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 13.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 20.3% have Norwegian ancestry.
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 Dresser are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.4% 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 66.0% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 38.1% 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 33.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.4%), and 10.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.6%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Dresser, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (38.3%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (20.3%), and residents who report Swedish roots (13.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (10.5%), along with some English ancestry residents (9.6%), 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 (37.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (79.3%) 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 (7.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.