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Mount Olive, IL

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Overview


Mount Olive is a very small city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 1,961 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Olive is the 576th largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

Mount Olive is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Mount Olive is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Olive who work in office and administrative support (15.51%), sales jobs (14.08%), and healthcare (8.59%).

Also of interest is that Mount Olive has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Mount Olive has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Mount Olive has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mount Olive than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mount Olive may be for you.

Mount Olive is a small city, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Mount Olive, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 96.79% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Mount Olive rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.21% of adults 25 and older in Mount Olive have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Mount Olive in 2022 was $35,467, which is middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $141,868 for a family of four. However, Mount Olive contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Mount Olive is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 93.0% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.1% of all American neighborhoods.

People

Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 19.6% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 95.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 42.6% have German ancestry.

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 Mount Olive are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.3% 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, 37.5% 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 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.2%), and 14.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.7% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.9%).

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 Olive, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (42.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.6%), along with some Croatian ancestry residents (2.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (31.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (93.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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