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Kewaunee, WI

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Overview


Kewaunee is a very small city located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 2,800 people and just one neighborhood, Kewaunee is the 262nd largest community in Wisconsin. Kewaunee has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Kewaunee, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.14% of Kewaunee’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Kewaunee is a city of professionals, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Kewaunee who work in teaching (11.14%), food service (7.86%), and management occupations (6.95%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.34% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Kewaunee 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. Kewaunee has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Kewaunee than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Kewaunee may be for you.

Kewaunee is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Kewaunee who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.13% of the adults in Kewaunee have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Kewaunee in 2022 was $42,881, which is upper middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $171,524 for a family of four. However, Kewaunee contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Kewaunee is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 41.1% have German 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 Kewaunee are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.9% 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 61.8% 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, 39.3% 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 28.9% 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 13.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Kewaunee, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (41.1%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report Belgian roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.0%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.3%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (75.9%) 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 (10.5%) . 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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