Pleasant Hill - New Canton is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 2,848 people and just one neighborhood, Pleasant Hill - New Canton is the 488th largest community in Illinois. Pleasant Hill - New Canton has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Unlike some towns, Pleasant Hill - New Canton isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Pleasant Hill - New Canton are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pleasant Hill - New Canton is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasant Hill - New Canton who work in management occupations (13.25%), office and administrative support (13.00%), and healthcare (9.20%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.37% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Pleasant Hill - New Canton’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
Pleasant Hill - New Canton is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of Pleasant Hill - New Canton 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 Pleasant Hill - New Canton, 21.09% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Pleasant Hill - New Canton in 2022 was $27,579, which is low income relative to Illinois, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $110,316 for a family of four. However, Pleasant Hill - New Canton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Pleasant Hill - New Canton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pleasant Hill - New Canton residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Pleasant Hill - New Canton include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Pleasant Hill - New Canton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 11 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 32.8% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 96.1% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
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 Pleasant Hill - New Canton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.8% 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, 31.9% 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 25.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.2%), and 17.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Pleasant Hill - New Canton, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.0%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.9%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.2%), among others.
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 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 (79.0%) 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 (10.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.