Pleasant Hill - New Canton is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 2,848 people and just one neighborhood, Pleasant Hill - New Canton is the 488th largest community in Illinois. Pleasant Hill - New Canton has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Pleasant Hill - New Canton is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Pleasant Hill - New Canton is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasant Hill - New Canton who work in office and administrative support (14.75%), management occupations (10.76%), and healthcare (9.21%).
Because of many things, Pleasant Hill - New Canton 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, Pleasant Hill - New Canton really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Pleasant Hill - New Canton 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.
Being a small town, Pleasant Hill - New Canton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Pleasant Hill - New Canton is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.78% of adults 25 and older in Pleasant Hill - New Canton have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pleasant Hill - New Canton in 2022 was $27,178, which is low income relative to Illinois, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $108,712 for a family of four. However, Pleasant Hill - New Canton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Pleasant Hill - New Canton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pleasant Hill - New Canton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pleasant Hill - New Canton include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Pleasant Hill - New Canton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Pleasant Hill - New Canton, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 11 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 33.5% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 96.0% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Pleasant Hill - New Canton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.9% of U.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, 30.3% 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 25.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.3%), and 18.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Pleasant Hill - New Canton, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.0%), along with some Dutch 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 (42.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.7%) 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 (8.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.