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Genoa, IL

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Overview


Genoa is a somewhat small city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 5,437 people and just one neighborhood, Genoa is the 327th largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Genoa isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Genoa are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Genoa is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Genoa who work in food service (11.66%), office and administrative support (8.59%), and management occupations (6.81%).

A relatively large number of people in Genoa telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.93% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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

Genoa’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

One downside of living in Genoa is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Genoa, the average commute to work is 32.04 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Genoa 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.

Demographics

In Genoa, just 12.27% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Genoa in 2022 was $34,750, which is middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $139,000 for a family of four. However, Genoa contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Genoa is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Genoa home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Genoa residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Genoa also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 25.51% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Genoa include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Polish.

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

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 ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Genoa are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 24.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.4% 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, 31.7% 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 30.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.6%), and 12.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 90.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish, Spanish and Italian.

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 Genoa, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.7%), and residents who report Mexican roots (16.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (16.0%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (9.3%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (27.5% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (72.1%) 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 (20.2%) . 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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