St. Elmo is a very small city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 1,242 people and just one neighborhood, St. Elmo is the 652nd largest community in Illinois.
St. Elmo is a blue-collar town, with 37.42% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, St. Elmo is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in St. Elmo who work in management occupations (15.27%), office and administrative support (10.40%), and food service (9.56%).
St. Elmo is a small city, 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 St. Elmo has a very low overall level of education: only 8.66% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in St. Elmo in 2022 was $22,585, which is low income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $90,340 for a family of four. However, St. Elmo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call St. Elmo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of St. Elmo residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in St. Elmo include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in St. Elmo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Greek.
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Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 33 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 St. Elmo are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.2% 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, 31.4% 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 31.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.7%), and 15.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.0% 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 St. Elmo, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.1%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 (35.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.8%) 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.