Merrimac is a tiny village located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 518 people and just one neighborhood, Merrimac is the 450th largest community in Wisconsin. Merrimac has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Merrimac real estate is some of the most expensive in Wisconsin, although Merrimac house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Unlike some villages, Merrimac isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Merrimac are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Merrimac is a village of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Merrimac who work in sales jobs (16.55%), management occupations (14.19%), and maintenance occupations (7.77%).
In Merrimac, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.94 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Merrimac 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 education level of Merrimac citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 32.65% of adults in Merrimac have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Merrimac in 2022 was $47,043, which is wealthy relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $188,172 for a family of four. However, Merrimac contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Merrimac is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Merrimac home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Merrimac residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Merrimac include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Merrimac is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 40 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.9% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 40.0% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 1.8% have Swiss 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 Merrimac are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 61.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.5% 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, 33.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 27.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (26.2%), and 12.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 88.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (9.7%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Merrimac, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (40.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.3%), and residents who report Mexican roots (9.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.4%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (6.4%), among others.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.4%) 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 (12.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.