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Ransom, IL

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Overview


Ransom is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 305 people and just one neighborhood, Ransom is the 777th largest community in Illinois. Ransom has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.

Occupations and Workforce

Ransom is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Ransom is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Ransom who work in office and administrative support (12.79%), management occupations (8.72%), and sales jobs (7.56%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Ransom’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

The village 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, Ransom has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ransom a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

As is often the case in a small village, Ransom doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The citizens of Ransom are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.08% of adults in Ransom have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Ransom in 2018 was $33,142, which is middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $132,568 for a family of four. However, Ransom contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Ransom is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Ransom home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ransom residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Ransom also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.03% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ransom include German, Irish, Slovak, English, and Norwegian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

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 37 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.3% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 9.2% have Norwegian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Ransom 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 10.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.0% 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, 37.8% 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 26.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.8%), and 17.4% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

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 Ransom, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (21.3%), and residents who report English roots (11.6%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (9.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (7.4%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.8%) 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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