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Wausau, WI - History


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Welcome to the Wausau Home page. The Wausau Home page provides as much information as possible on Wausau. Knowing Wausau’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Wausau’s Home page, you will also find Wausau’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Wausau has a population of 76016. 48.4% of Wausau’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.6 are female. 44.9% of Wausau is married and 54.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $121,190, and the average rent is $767. Household median income in Wausau is $47,438, and the individual median income is $27,616. Wausau’s Ethnic is the following: White(82.1%), Asian(11.9%), Multiple(4.3%), Hispanic(3.8%), Other(0.7%), Black(0.5%), Native(0.3%).


As of 2003 the Hmong Americans are the largest ethnic minority in Wausau. Churches and social service agencies settled refugees, most of them Hmong with some Vietnamese and Lao, in Wausau after the Vietnam War. According to the 1980 U.S. Census, the Wausau SMSA had fewer than 1% non-White people. There were several dozen immigrants in 1978.


By 1980 Wausau had 200 immigrants. This increased to 400 in 1982 and 800 in 1984.In 1981 there were 160 Hmong students in the Wausau School District and in 1991 1,010. In a period ending in 1994 the tax rate of the Wausau School District rose by 10.48% as a result of the expenses of services to children from immigrant families.


The increase was three times as high as the increase in an adjacent school district without a large immigrant population. By 1994 Wausau had 4,200 refugees. By 1996 the number of Hmong students in the school district was over 2,000. In 1998 this number reached its peak, 2,214. The city experienced some social upheaval following the Hmong arrival.


Some schools in Wausau had a minority of English speakers and some were predominantly Hmong students. Some native-born American families in Wausau criticized the crime and expenses in social services.As of 2003, "Sixty percent of Hmong families are homeowners. Although more than half of the workforce is earning less than $8 an hour, the welfare rate has dropped to less than 5 percent.


More people are going to college. And test scores and graduation rates of Hmong public school students are steadily rising."In Wausau there is relatively little Hmong-language media because for much of its history, the Hmong language was not written.


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