Hidalgo is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 108 people and just one neighborhood, Hidalgo is the 802nd largest community in Illinois.
When you are in Hidalgo, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 51.35% of Hidalgo’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Hidalgo is a village of sales and office workers, farmers, fishers, or foresters, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hidalgo who work in sales jobs (18.92%), farm management occupations (18.92%), and personal care services (10.81%).
You will also find that a lot of people in Hidalgo work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.
Because of many things, Hidalgo 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, Hidalgo really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Hidalgo 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.
Residents will find that the village is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Hidalgo is worth considering.
As is often the case in a small village, Hidalgo doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Hidalgo who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.19% of the adults in Hidalgo have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Hidalgo in 2022 was $28,210, which is lower middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $112,840 for a family of four. However, Hidalgo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Hidalgo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hidalgo residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Hidalgo include English, German, Danish, European, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Hidalgo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Tagalog.
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.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 44.6% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.1% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 13 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.4% of America.
Our research reveals that 89.7% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Hidalgo are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.4% 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 77.5% 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, 37.1% 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 33.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.4%), and 8.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Hidalgo, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.0%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 (39.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (89.7%) 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 (7.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.