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Eldred, IL

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Overview


Eldred is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 146 people and just one neighborhood, Eldred is the 796th largest community in Illinois. Eldred has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.

Occupations and Workforce

Eldred is a blue-collar town, with 50.00% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Eldred is a village of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Eldred who work in office and administrative support (15.63%), food service (14.58%), and sales jobs (5.21%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Eldred is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

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

One downside of living in Eldred, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 42.07 minutes every day commuting to work.

Eldred is a very car-oriented village. 97.87% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Eldred is a small village , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Eldred has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

As is often the case in a small village, Eldred doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

Eldred ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.88% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Eldred in 2022 was $40,844, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $163,376 for a family of four. However, Eldred contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Eldred is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.

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 NeighborhoodScout'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

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 97.7% of the neighborhoods in America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Occupations

The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 98.1% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.

People

If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 8.7% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in Illinois, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in Illinois.

Migration / Stability

Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 97.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Armenian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 38.8% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 0.9% have Armenian 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. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Eldred are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 54.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.2% of U.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, 39.4% 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 26.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.1%), and 17.0% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Eldred, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (38.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.2%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (41.9% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

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 (14.3%) . 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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