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Edinburg - Mount Auburn, IL

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Overview


Edinburg - Mount Auburn is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 2,774 people and just one neighborhood, Edinburg - Mount Auburn is the 496th largest community in Illinois. Edinburg - Mount Auburn has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

Edinburg - Mount Auburn is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Edinburg - Mount Auburn is a town of service providers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Edinburg - Mount Auburn who work in management occupations (13.97%), office and administrative support (11.26%), and healthcare (8.91%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.75% 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

Edinburg - Mount Auburn is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Edinburg - Mount Auburn with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.01% of adults in Edinburg - Mount Auburn have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Edinburg - Mount Auburn in 2022 was $41,540, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $166,160 for a family of four. However, Edinburg - Mount Auburn contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Edinburg - Mount Auburn is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 20 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Edinburg - Mount Auburn are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.3% 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 57.3% of America's neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 33.4% 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 32.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.7%), and 14.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Edinburg - Mount Auburn, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.1%), along with some British ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 (37.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (76.8%) 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 (11.1%) . 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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