Evansville - Prairie du Rocher is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 3,163 people and just one neighborhood, Evansville - Prairie du Rocher is the 456th largest community in Illinois.
Evansville - Prairie du Rocher is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Evansville - Prairie du Rocher is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Evansville - Prairie du Rocher who work in office and administrative support (17.04%), management occupations (8.38%), and sales jobs (6.71%).
Overall, Evansville - Prairie du Rocher’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Evansville - Prairie du Rocher rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.15% of adults 25 and older in Evansville - Prairie du Rocher 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 Evansville - Prairie du Rocher in 2022 was $34,210, which is middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $136,840 for a family of four. However, Evansville - Prairie du Rocher contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Evansville - Prairie du Rocher home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Evansville - Prairie du Rocher residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Evansville - Prairie du Rocher include German, French, Irish, English, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Evansville - Prairie du Rocher is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
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 94.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 48.6% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 11.5% have French ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.4% 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 98.3% 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 Evansville - Prairie du Rocher are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.7% 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, 29.7% 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 23.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.7%), and 21.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.5%).
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 Evansville - Prairie du Rocher, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (48.6%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 (38.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.7%) 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 (11.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.