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Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk, WI

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Overview


Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk is a very small town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 2,624 people and just one neighborhood, Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk is the 276th largest community in Wisconsin.

Occupations and Workforce

Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk who work in management occupations (16.87%), office and administrative support (14.59%), and sales jobs (8.58%).

Also of interest is that Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk 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 Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.96% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Another notable thing is that Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk is an extremely popular destination for tourists and seasonal residents. So much of the population is seasonal such that the town’s population swells significantly during the vacation season, and drops again when the season ends. Because of this, much of the local economy is centered around tourism; some businesses may be operated only during the high season. During the low season, year-round residents will notice that the city is a substantially quieter place to live.

Because of many things, Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

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, Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Being a small town, Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The education level of Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 30.56% of adults in Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk in 2022 was $47,459, which is wealthy relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $189,836 for a family of four. However, Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk include German, Polish, Irish, Norwegian, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk is English. Other important languages spoken here include Slavic languages and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Real Estate

Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ 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 61.3%, which is higher than 99.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

In addition, 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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's exclusive analysis, with only 36 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.7% of America.

People

Of particular note, 4.2% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

In addition, if you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk is a great option to consider. According to Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in WI, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 87.2% of the neighborhoods in Wisconsin. If you are considering retiring to Wisconsin, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 39.5% have German ancestry.

The Neighbors

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. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.1% 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 54.8% 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, 38.7% 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 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.4%), and 16.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Hazelhurst - Lake Tomahawk, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (39.5%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (12.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (8.7%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (6.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (52.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (73.9%) 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 (13.8%) . 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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