Residents with income below the poverty level in 2007:
| This village: |  5.7% | | Whole state: |  8.7% |
Residents with income below 50% of the poverty level in 2007:
| This village: | 0.9% | | Whole state: | 3.7% |
Detailed information about poverty and poor residents in Whiting, WI
139 people in nursing homes
24 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Whiting compared to Wisconsin state average:
- Unemployed percentage below state average.
- Black race population percentage significantly below state average.
- Hispanic race population percentage significantly below state average.
- Median age significantly above state average.
- Length of stay since moving in above state average.
- Institutionalized population percentage significantly above state average.
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2004 Presidential Election results in Portage County Wisconsin:
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Most commonly used house heating fuel:
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- Utility gas (81%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Other fuel (1%)
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Religion statistics for Whiting
| Name | Catholic Church | Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | Lutheran Church | United Methodist Church | Assemblies of God |
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| Adherents | 71.0% | 9.2% | 8.1% | 3.1% | 1.9% |
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| Congregations | 28.1% | 12.3% | 10.5% | 8.8% | 1.8% |
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| Name | Presbyterian Church (USA) | Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod | Evangelical Free Church of America | General Association of Regular Baptist Churches | Other religions |
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| Adherents | 1.1% | 1.0% | 0.8% | 0.6% | 3.1% |
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| Congregations | 1.8% | 1.8% | 3.5% | 3.5% | 28.1% |
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Source: Jones, Dale E., et al. 2002. Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Nashville, TN: Glenmary Research Center.
Tables represent county-level data.
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Local government employment and payroll (March 2007)
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| Function |
Full-time employees |
Monthly full-time payroll |
Average yearly full-time wage |
Part-time employees |
Monthly part-time payroll |
| Financial Administration |
1 | $3,396 | $40,752 | 7 | $1,590 |
| Other Government Administration |
0 | $0 | | 4 | $1,227 |
| Firefighters |
0 | $0 | | 22 | $532 |
| Streets and Highways |
1 | $2,500 | $30,000 | 1 | $400 |
| Sewerage |
2 | $8,440 | $50,640 | 0 | $0 |
| Water Supply |
1 | $3,182 | $38,184 | 0 | $0 |
| Totals for Government |
5 | $17,518 | $42,043 | 34 | $3,749 |
Whiting government finances in 2002:
- Charges - Sewerage: $221,000
All Other: $1,000
- Construction - Regular Highways: $42,000
Parks & Recreation: $35,000
- Current Operations - Sewerage: $299,000
Water Utilities: $280,000
Regular Highways: $193,000
Fire Protection: $70,000
Solid Waste Management: $69,000
Financial Administration: $50,000
General Public Buildings: $37,000
General - Other: $26,000
Central Staff Services: $20,000
Parks & Recreation: $20,000
Protective Inspection and Regulation, NEC: $9,000
Police Protection: $5,000
Health Services - Other: $3,000
Natural Resources - Other: $3,000
Judicial and Legal Services: $1,000
- General - Interest on Debt: $180,000
- Local Intergovernmental - All Other: $14,000
- Long Term Debt Beginning Outstanding - Water Utilities: $1,422,000
- Long Term Debt Beginning Outstanding, NEC: $2,862,000
- Long Term Debt Outstanding - Full Faith & Credit - Other, NEC: $2,782,000
Full Faith & Credit - Water Utilities: $836,000
- Long Term Debt Retired Unspecified - Water Utilities: $586,000
Other, NEC: $80,000
- Miscellaneous - Rents: $103,000
Interest Earnings: $90,000
General Revenue, NEC: $4,000
- Other Capital Outlay - Fire Protection: $7,000
Central Staff: $2,000
- Other Funds - Cash & Deposits: $2,204,000
- Revenue - Water Utilities: $302,000
- State Intergovernmental - General Support: $160,000
Highways: $45,000
All Other: $8,000
- Tax - Property: $269,000
NEC: $25,000
- Total Salaries & Wages: $203,000
- Water Utilities - Interest on Debt: $85,000
5.98% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($36,463 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 5.98% | | Wisconsin average: | 6.06% |
0.05% of residents moved from foreign countries ($71 average AGI)| Portage County: | 0.05% | | Wisconsin average: | 0.08% |
Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2005 and 2006:
6.46% of this county's 2005 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2006 ($33,044 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 6.46% | | Wisconsin average: | 6.22% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved to foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
Top counties to which taxpayers relocated from this county between 2005 and 2006:
Strongest AM radio stations in Whiting:
- WSPT (1010 AM; 50 kW; STEVENS POINT, WI)
- WSAU (550 AM; 20 kW; WAUSAU, WI; Owner: WRIG, INC.)
- WFHR (1320 AM; 5 kW; WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WI; Owner: WISCONSIN RAPIDS BROADCASTING, LLC)
- WNAM (1280 AM; 50 kW; NEENAH-MENASHA, WI; Owner: CUMULUS LICENSING CORP.)
- WRIG (1390 AM; 10 kW; SCHOFIELD, WI; Owner: WRIG, INC.)
- WDUX (800 AM; 5 kW; WAUPACA, WI; Owner: LAIRD BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC.)
- WLBL (930 AM; 5 kW; AUBURNDALE, WI; Owner: STATE OF WISCONSIN - EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS BOARD)
- WHBY (1150 AM; 25 kW; KIMBERLY, WI; Owner: WOODWARD COMMUNICATIONS, INC.)
- WTMJ (620 AM; 50 kW; MILWAUKEE, WI; Owner: JOURNAL BROADCAST CORPORATION)
- WEBC (560 AM; 50 kW; DULUTH, MN)
- WISN (1130 AM; 50 kW; MILWAUKEE, WI; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- WSCR (670 AM; 50 kW; CHICAGO, IL; Owner: INFINITY BROADCASTING OPERATIONS, INC.)
- WGN (720 AM; 50 kW; CHICAGO, IL; Owner: WGN CONTINENTAL BROADCASTING CO.)
Strongest FM radio stations in Whiting:
- WSPT-FM (97.9 FM; STEVENS POINT, WI; Owner: AMERICUS COMMUNICATIONS, LLC)
- WWSP (89.9 FM; STEVENS POINT, WI; Owner: BD. OF REGENTS OF UNIV. OF WISCONSIN)
- WYTE (96.7 FM; WHITING, WI; Owner: NEWRADIO GROUP, LLC)
- WGLX-FM (103.3 FM; WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WI; Owner: WISCONSIN RAPIDS BROADCASTING, LLC)
- WIZD (99.9 FM; RUDOLPH, WI; Owner: WRIG, INC)
- WLJY (106.5 FM; MARSHFIELD, WI; Owner: NEWRADIO GROUP, LLC)
- WGNV (88.5 FM; MILLADORE, WI; Owner: EVANGEL MINISTRIES, INC.)
- WHRM (90.9 FM; WAUSAU, WI; Owner: STATE OF WISCONSIN - EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS BOARD)
- WIFC (95.5 FM; WAUSAU, WI; Owner: WRIG, INC.)
- WDEZ (101.9 FM; WAUSAU, WI; Owner: W R I G, INC.)
- WLBL-FM (91.9 FM; WAUSAU, WI; Owner: STATE OF WISCONSIN - EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS BOARD)
- WXPW (91.9 FM; WAUSAU, WI; Owner: WHITE PINE COMMUNITY BROADCASTING, INC)
- WYCO (107.9 FM; WAUSAU, WI; Owner: SEEHAFER BROADCASTING CORPORATION)
- WCLQ (89.5 FM; WAUSAU, WI; Owner: CHRISTIAN LIFE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.)
- WMMA (93.9 FM; NEKOOSA, WI; Owner: STARBOARD BROADCASTING, INC.)
- WKQH (104.9 FM; MARATHON, WI; Owner: RLM COMMUNICATIONS, INC)
TV broadcast stations around Whiting:
- W24BV (Channel 24; WHITING, WI; Owner: MS COMMUNICATIONS, LLC)
- W60CI (Channel 60; WHITING, WI; Owner: MS COMMUNICATIONS, LLC)
- W16AY (Channel 16; WHITING, WI; Owner: MS COMMUNICATIONS, LLC)
- W18CS (Channel 18; WHITING, WI; Owner: MS COMMUNICATIONS, LLC)
- W40BC (Channel 40; WHITING, WI; Owner: MS COMMUNICATIONS, LLC)
- W62DA (Channel 62; WHITING, WI; Owner: MS COMMUNICATIONS, LLC)
- W06BU (Channel 6; WHITING, WI; Owner: MS COMMUNICATIONS, LLC)
- WAOW-TV (Channel 9; WAUSAU, WI; Owner: WAOW-WYOW TELEVISION, INC.)
- WSAW-TV (Channel 7; WAUSAU, WI; Owner: GRAY MIDAMERICA TV LICENSEE CORP.)
- WFXS (Channel 55; WITTENBERG, WI; Owner: DAVIS TELEVISION WAUSAU, LLC)
- WHRM-TV (Channel 20; WAUSAU, WI; Owner: STATE OF WISCONSIN - EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS BOARD)
Whiting fatal accident list:
Jul 16, 1991 07:55 AM, Bus51, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 3, Pedestrians: 1, Fatalities: 1
Jul 16, 1989 07:10 AM, Church, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 3, Fatalities: 1, Drunken drivers: 1
Feb 8, 1988 02:55 AM, 51, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 2, Fatalities: 1
Aug 5, 1981 08:38 AM, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 1, Fatalities: 1, Drunken drivers: 1
Dec 5, 1981 12:00 AM, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 2, Fatalities: 1, Drunken drivers: 1
Dec 14, 1975 12:54 AM, Vehicles: 2, Persons: 4, Fatalities: 1
National Bridge Inventory (NBI) Statistics
Number of bridges: 3
Total length: 13 meters (43ft)
Total average daily traffic: 22,767
Total average daily truck traffic: 517
Total future (year 2023) average daily traffic: 45,420
FCC Registered Private Land Mobile Towers: 6- 408 Post Rd 1 Mi S On Business Hwy 51, Call Sign: KJF998, Licensee ID: L00092902
Assigned Frequencies : 31.6000 MHz
Grant Date: 09/29/1995, Expiration Date: 10/16/2000
Registrant: Roberts Irrigation Company Inc, 1500 Post Rd, Plover, WI 54467-2628, Phone: (715) 344-4747 - 2627 Whiting Rd, Call Sign: WQU725, Licensee ID: L00006899
Assigned Frequencies : 153.530 MHz
Grant Date: 07/09/2005, Expiration Date: 09/20/2015
Registrant: Consolidated Water Power Company, 231 First Ave N, Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54495, Phone: (715) 422-3073 - Whiting Mill, Call Sign: KZV623
Assigned Frequencies : 153.065 MHz
Grant Date: 08/10/2002, Expiration Date: 08/10/2012, Certifier: James Mooney
Registrant: Atlas License Company, 1725-A North Shadeland Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46219, Phone: (317) 351-4865, Fax: (317) 351-4870, Email:
- Lat: 44.496667 Lon: -89.561944, Call Sign: WPUB313
Assigned Frequencies : 155.025 MHz
Grant Date: 01/28/2002, Expiration Date: 01/28/2012, Certifier: Debi A Lutz
Registrant: Northway Communications Inc, 105 E Oak St, Wausau, WI 54401, Phone: (715) 842-0841, Fax: (715) 848-1413, Email:
- STEVENS PT. CARE L/S, 1800 Sherman Street, Type: Mast, Structure height: 1.9 m, Overall height: 6 m, Call Sign: WQKA415
Assigned Frequencies : 458.387 MHz
Grant Date: 03/04/2009, Expiration Date: 03/04/2019, Certifier: Matt Saloun
Registrant: L. W. Allen, 4633 Tompkins Drive, Madison, WI 53716, Phone: (608) 222-8622, Fax: (608) 222-9414, Email:
- NEENAH PAPERS L/S, 3243 Whiting Road, Type: Mast, Structure height: 3 m, Overall height: 6 m, Call Sign: WQKA416
Assigned Frequencies : 458.387 MHz
Grant Date: 03/04/2009, Expiration Date: 03/04/2019, Certifier: Matt Saloun
Registrant: L. W. Allen, 4633 Tompkins Drive, Madison, WI 53716, Phone: (608) 222-8622, Fax: (608) 222-9414, Email:
2006 National Fire Incident Reporting System Incidents:- Fire: 7
- Hazardous Condition: 3
- Service Call: 2
See Full 2006 National Fire Incident Reporting System Statistics for Whiting, WI
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