St. Cloud - Mount Calvary is a very small town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 4,565 people and just one neighborhood, St. Cloud - Mount Calvary is the 175th largest community in Wisconsin. St. Cloud - Mount Calvary has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Unlike some towns, St. Cloud - Mount Calvary isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in St. Cloud - Mount Calvary are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, St. Cloud - Mount Calvary is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in St. Cloud - Mount Calvary who work in management occupations (13.67%), office and administrative support (9.64%), and healthcare (6.28%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.82% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
Because of many things, St. Cloud - Mount Calvary is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, St. Cloud - Mount Calvary really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is St. Cloud - Mount Calvary perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
St. Cloud - Mount Calvary is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The education level of St. Cloud - Mount Calvary citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.17% of adults 25 and older in St. Cloud - Mount Calvary have a college degree.
The per capita income in St. Cloud - Mount Calvary in 2022 was $38,898, which is upper middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $155,592 for a family of four.
The people who call St. Cloud - Mount Calvary home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of St. Cloud - Mount Calvary residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in St. Cloud - Mount Calvary include German, Irish, Italian, Polish, and French.
The most common language spoken in St. Cloud - Mount Calvary is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 45 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 8.8% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Wisconsin. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 66.4% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.
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 St. Cloud - Mount Calvary are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 64.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.9% 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 75.4% 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, 38.3% 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 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.3%), and 11.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in St. Cloud - Mount Calvary, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (66.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.2%), and residents who report Italian roots (4.9%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (4.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.