Paddock Lake is a very small village located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 2,986 people and just one neighborhood, Paddock Lake is the 258th largest community in Wisconsin.
Paddock Lake is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Paddock Lake is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Paddock Lake who work in office and administrative support (14.68%), healthcare (11.12%), and architecture and engineering (8.89%).
Also of interest is that Paddock Lake has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
In Paddock Lake, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.35 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Paddock Lake 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.
In terms of college education, Paddock Lake is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 28.96% of adults 25 and older in the village have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Paddock Lake in 2022 was $42,060, which is upper middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $168,240 for a family of four. However, Paddock Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Paddock Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Paddock Lake residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Paddock Lake include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Paddock Lake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.3% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.6% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Finnish 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 1.3% have Finnish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Paddock Lake are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 66.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.9% 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 75.4% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 37.4% 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 25.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.9%), and 17.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.1% of households. Some people also speak Italian (8.2%).
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 Paddock Lake, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (40.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.1%), and residents who report Polish roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (6.3%), 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 (30.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (89.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.