Abrams is a tiny town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 358 people and just one neighborhood, Abrams is the 478th largest community in Wisconsin.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Abrams is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Abrams is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Abrams who work in office and administrative support (14.62%), teaching (9.36%), and management occupations (7.60%).
Also of interest is that Abrams has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Abrams telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 12.87% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
One downside of living in Abrams, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.89 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Abrams doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Abrams rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.94% of adults 25 and older in Abrams have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Abrams in 2022 was $35,230, 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 $140,920 for a family of four. However, Abrams contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Abrams home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Abrams residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Abrams include German, Irish, Welsh, Polish, and Belgian.
The most common language spoken in Abrams is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and French.
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 Abrams, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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.
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, 5.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 39.4% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 15.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Abrams are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.6% 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 57.1% 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, 32.0% 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 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.0%), and 16.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households. Some people also speak Polish (15.0%).
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 Abrams, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (39.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.1%), and residents who report Polish roots (9.5%), and some of the residents are also of Belgian ancestry (5.9%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.1%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (83.2%) 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 (7.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.