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Davis - Dakota, IL

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Overview


Davis - Dakota is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 4,403 people and just one neighborhood, Davis - Dakota is the 369th largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Davis - Dakota, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.45% of Davis - Dakota’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Davis - Dakota is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Davis - Dakota who work in office and administrative support (13.53%), management occupations (8.85%), and sales jobs (7.58%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 11.31% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Davis - Dakota 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, Davis - Dakota really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Davis - Dakota 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.

One downside of living in Davis - Dakota is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Davis - Dakota, the average commute to work is 30.36 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. However, it is a pedestrian-friendly town. Many of Davis - Dakota’s neighborhoods are dense enough and have amenities close enough together that people find it feasible to get around on foot.

Demographics

The citizens of Davis - Dakota are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.21% of adults in Davis - Dakota having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Davis - Dakota in 2022 was $41,903, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $167,612 for a family of four. However, Davis - Dakota contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Davis - Dakota is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish 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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 35.9% have German ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Davis - Dakota are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.8% 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 56.3% 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, 34.2% 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 32.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.6%), and 15.6% 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 98.6% 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 Davis - Dakota, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (35.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report English roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Swiss ancestry (7.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (6.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (35.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.7%) 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 (5.2%) . 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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