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Kiel, WI

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Overview


Kiel is a very small city located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 3,950 people and just one neighborhood, Kiel is the 197th largest community in Wisconsin. Much of the housing stock in Kiel was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Kiel is a blue-collar town, with 78.31% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Kiel is a city of production and manufacturing workers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Kiel who work in healthcare (10.84%), business and financial occupations (10.84%), and office and administrative support (0.00%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.84% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Kiel 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. Kiel has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Kiel than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Kiel may be for you.

Being a small city, Kiel does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of Kiel has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Kiel in 2022 was $40,105, which is upper middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $160,420 for a family of four. However, Kiel contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Kiel is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Kiel home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kiel residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Kiel include German, Polish, French, Czech, and Canadian.

The most common language spoken in Kiel is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Diversity

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, 60.7% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Kiel are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 21.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.3% of U.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, 38.9% 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 32.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.8%), and 11.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Kiel, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (60.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.2%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (4.0%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (3.0%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (81.1%) 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 (8.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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