Poy Sippi is a tiny town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 379 people and just one neighborhood, Poy Sippi is the 474th largest community in Wisconsin. Poy Sippi has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
When you are in Poy Sippi, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 54.89% of Poy Sippi’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Poy Sippi is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Poy Sippi who work in food service (12.78%), maintenance occupations (6.77%), and healthcare (6.77%).
Also of interest is that Poy Sippi has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Poy Sippi’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Poy Sippi has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Poy Sippi a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Poy Sippi, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 39.30 minutes every day commuting to work.
Poy Sippi is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Poy Sippi isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.74% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
As is often the case in a small town, Poy Sippi doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Poy Sippi are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.81% of adults in Poy Sippi have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Poy Sippi in 2022 was $35,104, which is middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $140,416 for a family of four. However, Poy Sippi contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Poy Sippi home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Poy Sippi residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Poy Sippi include German, Irish, Polish, Norwegian, and Danish.
The most common language spoken in Poy Sippi is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 37 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.5% of America. 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.
In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 38.2%, which is higher than 97.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 47.3% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 11.7% have Polish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 11.6% 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 98.7% 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 Poy Sippi are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.3% of U.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, 33.2% 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 25.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.5%), and 18.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 Poy Sippi, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (47.3%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.6%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (5.1%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (26.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (80.4%) 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 (9.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.