Sadorus is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 394 people and just one neighborhood, Sadorus is the 767th largest community in Illinois.
Unlike some villages, Sadorus isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Sadorus are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sadorus is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Sadorus who work in office and administrative support (15.52%), maintenance occupations (12.64%), and computer science and math (8.05%).
Also of interest is that Sadorus has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The overall crime rate in Sadorus is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
The village 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, Sadorus has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Sadorus a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Sadorus is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Sadorus are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.16% of adults in Sadorus have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Sadorus in 2022 was $37,270, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $149,080 for a family of four. However, Sadorus contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Sadorus is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Sadorus home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sadorus residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Sadorus also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.08% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Sadorus include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Sadorus is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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.
If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 7.4% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in Illinois, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in Illinois.
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 33 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.1% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.2% of this neighborhood's residents have British ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Japanese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.8% 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 Sadorus are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 64.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 10.2% 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 50.4% 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, 45.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 20.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.1%), and 16.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% 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 Sadorus, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.6%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (2.6%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 (53.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.9%) 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 (6.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.