Genoa is a somewhat small city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 5,437 people and just one neighborhood, Genoa is the 327th largest community in Illinois.
Genoa is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Genoa is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Genoa who work in office and administrative support (11.68%), sales jobs (10.21%), and healthcare (7.85%).
Overall, Genoa’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
One downside of living in Genoa, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.67 minutes every day commuting to work.
Genoa is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Genoa are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.53% of adults in Genoa have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Genoa in 2022 was $36,267, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $145,068 for a family of four. However, Genoa contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Genoa is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Genoa home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Genoa residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Genoa also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.26% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Genoa include German, Italian, Irish, Swedish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Genoa is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
The neighborhood stands out within Illinois for its college student friendly environment. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood is home to a number of college students, is relatively walkable, and above average in safety. In combination, this makes it stand out for a good place for college students to consider. Because a number of college students live here, this neighborhood may be close to a college campus and offer certain amenities nearby geared towards the student body. While it's not an environment for everyone, ambitious scholars can enjoy seasonal excitement between semesters and school breaks, and parents can rest easy knowing that the area has an above average safety rating. For each of these reasons, the neighborhood is rated among the top 9.8% of college-friendly places to live in IL.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 6.1% have Swedish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Genoa are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 63.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.6% 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, 30.4% 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 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.0%), and 14.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 English, spoken by 90.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Polish and Italian.
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 Genoa, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.0%), and residents who report Italian roots (15.5%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (10.4%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (8.0%), among others.
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 (25.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (75.8%) 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 (17.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.