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Ashmore, IL

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Overview


Ashmore is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 630 people and just one neighborhood, Ashmore is the 725th largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Ashmore is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Ashmore is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Ashmore who work in management occupations (12.22%), office and administrative support (11.36%), and sales jobs (8.24%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small village, Ashmore does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Ashmore rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.41% of adults 25 and older in Ashmore have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Ashmore in 2022 was $25,310, which is low income relative to Illinois, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,240 for a family of four. However, Ashmore contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Ashmore home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ashmore residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ashmore include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and Italian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 94.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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The neighbors in the neighborhood in Ashmore are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 61.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.4% 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, 42.2% 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 29.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.3%), and 12.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Ashmore, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (18.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.2%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 (42.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (88.7%) 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 (5.8%) . 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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