Olive Branch - Thebes is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 1,336 people and just one neighborhood, Olive Branch - Thebes is the 631st largest community in Illinois.
When you are in Olive Branch - Thebes, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.19% of Olive Branch - Thebes’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Olive Branch - Thebes is a town of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Olive Branch - Thebes who work in food service (12.79%), management occupations (11.63%), and maintenance occupations (8.53%).
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Olive Branch - Thebes has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Olive Branch - Thebes has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Olive Branch - Thebes than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Olive Branch - Thebes may be for you.
One downside of living in Olive Branch - Thebes, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.90 minutes every day commuting to work.
Olive Branch - Thebes is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of Olive Branch - Thebes has a very low overall level of education: only 8.06% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Olive Branch - Thebes in 2022 was $21,248, which is low income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $84,992 for a family of four. However, Olive Branch - Thebes contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Olive Branch - Thebes is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Olive Branch - Thebes home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Olive Branch - Thebes residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Olive Branch - Thebes include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Olive Branch - Thebes is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
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.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 96.7% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 14 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 33.2%, which is higher than 95.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.
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 Olive Branch - Thebes are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.0% 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, 44.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 23.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.4%), and 8.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% 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 Olive Branch - Thebes, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (3.3%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (54.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (78.9%) 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 (15.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.