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Kinmundy - Alma, IL

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Overview


Kinmundy - Alma is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 3,302 people and just one neighborhood, Kinmundy - Alma is the 443rd largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

Kinmundy - Alma is a blue-collar town, with 43.91% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Kinmundy - Alma is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Kinmundy - Alma who work in office and administrative support (9.35%), management occupations (8.06%), and sales jobs (7.38%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Kinmundy - Alma’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Kinmundy - Alma with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.94% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Kinmundy - Alma in 2022 was $34,127, which is middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $136,508 for a family of four. However, Kinmundy - Alma contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Kinmundy - Alma is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Kinmundy - Alma, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 95.6% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 22 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

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 Kinmundy - Alma are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.3% 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 60.5% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 40.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 23.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.0%), and 13.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% 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 Kinmundy - Alma, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.3%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.9%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (84.8%) 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 (10.4%) . 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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