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Mount Carroll, IL

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Overview


Mount Carroll is a very small city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 1,441 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Carroll is the 632nd largest community in Illinois. Mount Carroll has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.

Occupations and Workforce

Mount Carroll is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Mount Carroll is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Carroll who work in office and administrative support (12.39%), sales jobs (9.14%), and teaching (7.63%).

A relatively large number of people in Mount Carroll telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.58% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Mount Carroll has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mount Carroll a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Demographics

The education level of Mount Carroll citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.00% of adults in Mount Carroll have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Mount Carroll in 2022 was $32,272, which is lower middle income relative to Illinois, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $129,088 for a family of four. However, Mount Carroll contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Mount Carroll is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

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 44 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.3% of America.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Mount Carroll is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in IL, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 88.5% of the neighborhoods in Illinois. If you are considering retiring to Illinois, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 34.6% have German ancestry.

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 Mount Carroll are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.9% of U.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, 37.1% 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 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.3%), and 15.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.1% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.2%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Mount Carroll, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (34.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.3%), and residents who report English roots (6.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.8%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 (30.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (82.0%) 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 (9.4%) . 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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