Marseilles is a very small city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 4,771 people and just one neighborhood, Marseilles is the 351st largest community in Illinois. Much of the housing stock in Marseilles was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
Marseilles is a blue-collar town, with 39.25% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Marseilles is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Marseilles who work in office and administrative support (15.54%), teaching (9.95%), and sales jobs (7.80%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.86% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
The city 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, Marseilles has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Marseilles a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In terms of college education, Marseilles is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.72% of adults 25 and older in Marseilles have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Marseilles in 2022 was $27,606, which is lower middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $110,424 for a family of four. However, Marseilles contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Marseilles home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Marseilles residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Marseilles include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Marseilles is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Chinese.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Marseilles, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 92.5% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.5% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 16.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 23.3% have Irish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 14.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.0% 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 Marseilles are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 56.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.4% 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, 31.9% 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 30.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.1%), and 16.1% 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 95.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Marseilles, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (23.3%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (16.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (12.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (11.8%), 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 (34.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (92.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.