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Pocahontas - Pierron, IL

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Overview


Pocahontas - Pierron is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 3,954 people and just one neighborhood, Pocahontas - Pierron is the 400th largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Pocahontas - Pierron is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.49% of the Pocahontas - Pierron workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Pocahontas - Pierron is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Pocahontas - Pierron who work in management occupations (10.34%), office and administrative support (10.23%), and teaching (7.31%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Pocahontas - Pierron 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.

Demographics

The education level of Pocahontas - Pierron citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.78% of adults 25 and older in Pocahontas - Pierron have a college degree.

The per capita income in Pocahontas - Pierron in 2022 was $36,218, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $144,872 for a family of four. However, Pocahontas - Pierron contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Pocahontas - Pierron home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pocahontas - Pierron residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Pocahontas - Pierron include German, English, Irish, French, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Pocahontas - Pierron is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

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 26 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.4% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 38.3% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Pocahontas - Pierron are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.7% of the neighborhoods in America. 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.

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, 37.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.4%), and 12.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Pocahontas - Pierron, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (38.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (5.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.7%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (36.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (87.1%) 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.


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