Maryville is a somewhat small village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 8,316 people and just one neighborhood, Maryville is the 256th largest community in Illinois.
Maryville is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 85.72% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Maryville is a village of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Maryville who work in management occupations (17.82%), office and administrative support (14.26%), and healthcare (7.94%).
Also of interest is that Maryville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Maryville telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 20.41% 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.
Because of many things, Maryville 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, Maryville really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Maryville 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 education level of Maryville ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Maryville, 46.10% have at least a bachelor's degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree.
The per capita income in Maryville in 2022 was $49,346, which is wealthy relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $197,384 for a family of four.
Maryville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Maryville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Maryville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Maryville include German, English, Irish, European, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Maryville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Tagalog.
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.
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 Maryville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 72.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.2% 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 61.0% of America'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, 45.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 19.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.9%), and 15.9% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% of households. Some people also speak Polish (5.7%).
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 Maryville, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.2%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.1%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.7%) 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.