Pocahontas - Pierron is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 3,954 people and just one neighborhood, Pocahontas - Pierron is the 400th largest community in Illinois.
When you are in Pocahontas - Pierron, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.49% of Pocahontas - Pierron’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Pocahontas - Pierron is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Pocahontas - Pierron who work in management occupations (10.34%), office and administrative support (10.23%), and teaching (7.31%).
Being a small town, Pocahontas - Pierron does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Pocahontas - Pierron who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.78% of the adults in Pocahontas - Pierron have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pocahontas - Pierron in 2022 was $36,218, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $144,872 for a family of four. However, Pocahontas - Pierron contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Pocahontas - Pierron home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pocahontas - Pierron residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Pocahontas - Pierron include German, English, Irish, French, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Pocahontas - Pierron is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 26 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 38.3% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.
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 Pocahontas - Pierron are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.9% 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, 37.9% 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 27.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.4%), and 12.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% of households.
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 Pocahontas - Pierron, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (38.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (5.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.7%), among others.
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 (36.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.1%) 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.