Trempealeau is a very small village located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 1,886 people and just one neighborhood, Trempealeau is the 317th largest community in Wisconsin.
Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Trempealeau is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Trempealeau is a village of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Trempealeau who work in sales jobs (10.77%), teaching (9.06%), and personal care services (8.85%).
Overall, Trempealeau’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Trempealeau is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of Trempealeau overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Trempealeau, 22.96% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Trempealeau in 2022 was $35,113, which is middle income relative to Wisconsin, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $140,452 for a family of four. However, Trempealeau contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Trempealeau home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Trempealeau residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Trempealeau include German, Norwegian, Polish, Irish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Trempealeau is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Spanish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Trempealeau, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 24.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 18.3% have Polish 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 Trempealeau are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.8% 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 72.3% 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, 32.5% 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 32.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.6%), and 13.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% of households.
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 Trempealeau, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (40.0%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (24.3%), and residents who report Polish roots (18.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (12.1%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.9%), 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 (42.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.2%) 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 (5.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.