Sealcoating and Asphalt in Tainter Lake, WI

the 2000s is the decade that built Tainter Lake, at 25.1 percent of the housing, with 4.8 percent older than 1940 behind it. A place that went up in one burst ages in one burst. The drives fail together, the advice is largely the same along a road, and the thing worth deciding is timing rather than whether.

Mostly single-family, at 83.9 percent detached, with a small share of duplexes and multi-unit buildings mixed in. That second group is the one where sealing pays back fastest, because a surface carrying six vehicles instead of two finds the edge of its wear layer years earlier.

Tainter Lake is unincorporated, which means it is a real place with real houses and no government of its own. It also means the Census publishes no population for it, so the honest figure to work from is the 1,177 homes here rather than a headcount. On the ground it behaves like township: town roads, longer drives, and an apron rather than a curb where the drive meets the road.