Park Falls is a very small city located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 2,393 people and two associated neighborhoods, Park Falls is the 287th largest community in Wisconsin.When you are in Park Falls, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.83% of Park Falls’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Park Falls is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Park Falls who work in office and administrative support (12.43%), healthcare suport services (8.62%), and sales jobs (6.27%). 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!) Park Falls 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. Park Falls has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Park Falls than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Park Falls may be for you. Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.17 minutes getting to work every day. Being a small city, Park Falls does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of people in Park Falls with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.74% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Park Falls in 2022 was $28,337, which is low income relative to Wisconsin, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $113,348 for a family of four. However, Park Falls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Park Falls home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Park Falls residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Park Falls include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Park Falls is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
