Potosi is a tiny village located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 647 people and just one neighborhood, Potosi is the 427th largest community in Wisconsin.
Unlike some villages, Potosi isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Potosi are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Potosi is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Potosi who work in food service (14.53%), office and administrative support (13.18%), and management occupations (10.47%).
Of important note, Potosi is also a village of artists. Potosi has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Potosi’s character.
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!) Potosi 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. Potosi has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Potosi than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Potosi may be for you.
As is often the case in a small village, Potosi doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Potosi are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.02% of adults in Potosi have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Potosi in 2022 was $33,221, which is middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $132,884 for a family of four. However, Potosi contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Potosi home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Potosi residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Potosi include German, English, Irish, Norwegian, and Swiss.
The most common language spoken in Potosi is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 31 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.6% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 42.2% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Potosi are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.5% of U.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, 37.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.5%), and 14.5% 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 95.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Italian.
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 Potosi, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (42.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.8%), and residents who report English roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (3.2%), along with some Swiss ancestry residents (2.8%), among others.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.2%) 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 (6.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.