Tolono - Philo is a somewhat small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 5,936 people and just one neighborhood, Tolono - Philo is the 298th largest community in Illinois. Tolono - Philo has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Tolono - Philo, where the median household income is $99,674.00.
Unlike some towns, Tolono - Philo isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Tolono - Philo are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Tolono - Philo is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tolono - Philo who work in management occupations (13.32%), teaching (10.35%), and sales jobs (9.75%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.63% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
Because of many things, Tolono - Philo is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Tolono - Philo really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Tolono - Philo perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
Being a small town, Tolono - Philo does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Tolono - Philo citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 32.99% of adults in Tolono - Philo have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Tolono - Philo in 2022 was $42,641, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $170,564 for a family of four. However, Tolono - Philo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Tolono - Philo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tolono - Philo residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Tolono - Philo include German, English, Irish, Polish, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Tolono - Philo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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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 Tolono - Philo are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 75.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.6% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 79.9% of America'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, 43.7% 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 24.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.3%), and 9.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.7% 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 Tolono - Philo, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.2%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (6.2%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 (62.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.4%) 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 (7.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.