Hidalgo is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 108 people and just one neighborhood, Hidalgo is the 802nd largest community in Illinois.
When you are in Hidalgo, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 51.35% of Hidalgo’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Hidalgo is a village of sales and office workers, farmers, fishers, or foresters, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hidalgo who work in sales jobs (18.92%), farm management occupations (18.92%), and personal care services (10.81%).
You will also find that a lot of people in Hidalgo work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.
Because of many things, Hidalgo 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, Hidalgo really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Hidalgo 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.
The village is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Hidalgo has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Hidalgo a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small village, Hidalgo does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Hidalgo who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.19% of the adults in Hidalgo have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Hidalgo in 2022 was $28,210, which is lower middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $112,840 for a family of four. However, Hidalgo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Hidalgo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hidalgo residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Hidalgo include English, German, Danish, European, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Hidalgo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Tagalog.
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.
Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 44.6% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.1% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
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 13 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.4% of America.
Our research reveals that 89.7% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Hidalgo are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.4% 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 77.5% 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, 37.1% 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 33.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.4%), and 8.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% of households.
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 Hidalgo, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.0%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 (39.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (89.7%) 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 (7.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.