Earlville is a very small city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 1,593 people and just one neighborhood, Earlville is the 618th largest community in Illinois.
When you are in Earlville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.44% of Earlville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Earlville is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Earlville who work in sales jobs (15.81%), office and administrative support (8.72%), and teaching (6.54%).
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Earlville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Earlville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Earlville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Earlville may be for you.
One downside of living in Earlville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.04 minutes every day commuting to work.
Earlville 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 Earlville has a very low overall level of education: only 7.83% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Earlville in 2022 was $26,693, 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 $106,772 for a family of four. However, Earlville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Earlville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Earlville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Earlville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Earlville include German, Irish, Norwegian, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Earlville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 26 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.6% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 11.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 2.2% have Hungarian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Earlville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 26.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 37.4% 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 27.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.9%), and 11.8% 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 92.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Polish and Italian.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Earlville, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.5%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (11.4%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (8.6%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.2%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (27.4% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
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 (7.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.