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Marshall, IL

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Overview


Marshall is a very small city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 3,911 people and just one neighborhood, Marshall is the 404th largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Marshall isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Marshall are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Marshall is a city of professionals, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Marshall who work in management occupations (10.64%), healthcare (8.51%), and office and administrative support (7.87%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small city, Marshall does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of Marshall overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Marshall, 23.50% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Marshall in 2022 was $33,741, which is middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $134,964 for a family of four. However, Marshall contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Marshall home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Marshall residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Marshall include German, English, Irish, European, and Polish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

Of particular note, 2.3% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

The Neighbors

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 Marshall are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.2% 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 70.7% 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, 36.9% 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 31.8% 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 11.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.8% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.2%).

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 Marshall, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (17.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.2%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (3.0%), along with some Italian 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 (44.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (81.3%) 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 (16.0%) . 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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