Beecher is a very small village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 4,687 people and just one neighborhood, Beecher is the 356th largest community in Illinois. Much of the housing stock in Beecher was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Beecher economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Beecher, where the median household income is $101,957.00.
When you are in Beecher, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.87% of Beecher’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Beecher is a village of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Beecher who work in management occupations (12.85%), office and administrative support (9.39%), and business and financial occupations (7.30%).
Because of many things, Beecher is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Beecher really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Beecher perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
One downside of living in Beecher is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Beecher, the average commute to work is 30.51 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
The percentage of people in Beecher who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 25.77% of adults in Beecher have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Beecher in 2022 was $53,049, which is wealthy relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $212,196 for a family of four.
Beecher is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Beecher home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Beecher residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Beecher also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.01% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Beecher include German, Polish, Irish, Italian, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Beecher is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Beecher, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Polish and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 18.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry and 7.8% have Dutch ancestry.
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 Beecher are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 74.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% 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, 38.0% 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 33.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.1%), and 12.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.6%).
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 Beecher, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (35.2%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (18.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (18.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (12.0%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (7.8%), among others.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (28.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (76.1%) 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 (14.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.