Fairmont City is a very small village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 2,203 people and just one neighborhood, Fairmont City is the 554th largest community in Illinois.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Fairmont City is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 48.32% of the Fairmont City workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Fairmont City is a village of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fairmont City who work in maintenance occupations (10.83%), office and administrative support (9.97%), and sales jobs (7.58%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.08% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
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, Fairmont City has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Fairmont City a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small village, Fairmont City does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Fairmont City with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.65% of adults in Fairmont City have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Fairmont City in 2022 was $22,251, which is low income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $89,004 for a family of four. However, Fairmont City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Fairmont City is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Fairmont City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Fairmont City, accounting for 65.36% of the village’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Fairmont City residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Fairmont City include German, Irish, French, Canadian, and English.
In addition, Fairmont City has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (22.87%).
The most common language spoken in Fairmont City is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Polish.
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.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 98.5% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 20.9% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 96.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 1.9% have Canadian ancestry.
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 Fairmont City are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 49.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 93.6% 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, 48.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 24.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.5%), and 10.4% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 55.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English and Polish.
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 Fairmont City, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (63.3%). There are also a number of people of Native American ancestry (7.6%), and residents who report German roots (4.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (2.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.3%), among others. In addition, 22.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (56.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (75.3%) 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 (12.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.