Zeigler - Royalton is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 3,569 people and just one neighborhood, Zeigler - Royalton is the 422nd largest community in Illinois. Zeigler - Royalton has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Zeigler - Royalton is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Zeigler - Royalton is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Zeigler - Royalton who work in office and administrative support (11.95%), sales jobs (8.90%), and management occupations (8.46%).
The citizens of Zeigler - Royalton are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.61% of adults in Zeigler - Royalton have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Zeigler - Royalton in 2022 was $27,840, which is lower middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $111,360 for a family of four. However, Zeigler - Royalton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Zeigler - Royalton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Zeigler - Royalton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Zeigler - Royalton include German, Irish, Italian, English, and French.
The most common language spoken in Zeigler - Royalton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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Significantly, 7.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Zeigler - Royalton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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In the neighborhood, 28.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 27.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.9%), and 19.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 98.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Zeigler - Royalton, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.1%), and residents who report Italian roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.1%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.7%), 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 (38.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.5%) 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 (7.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.