Jerome is a very small village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 1,644 people and just one neighborhood, Jerome is the 610th largest community in Illinois.
Unlike some villages, Jerome isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Jerome are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Jerome is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Jerome who work in office and administrative support (16.91%), healthcare (12.36%), and management occupations (11.34%).
Also of interest is that Jerome has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Jerome telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.05% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Jerome spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.18 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the village are less than they would otherwise be.
As is often the case in a small village, Jerome doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Jerome citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 32.05% of adults in Jerome have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Jerome in 2022 was $33,995, which is middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $135,980 for a family of four. However, Jerome contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Jerome is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Jerome home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Jerome residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Jerome include German, English, Irish, European, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Jerome is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Jerome, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
If your dream is to be able to ride your bike to work each day, look no further than this unique neighborhood. With 4.4% of residents in the neighborhood commuting on a bicycle to and from work daily, this neighborhood has more bicycle commuters than 97.8% of all neighborhoods in the U.S., according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis.
The government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed, is that the neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 13.3% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 95.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Significantly, 4.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Vietnamese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Jerome are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.7% 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, 41.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 26.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.8%), and 15.8% in manufacturing and laborer 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 91.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Vietnamese 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 Jerome, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (4.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 (44.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.5%) 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 (8.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.