Sadorus is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 391 people and just one neighborhood, Sadorus is the 767th largest community in Illinois.
Sadorus is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-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 (14.94%), maintenance occupations (13.22%), and computer science and math (10.92%).
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.
It is a fairly quiet village 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!) Sadorus 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. Sadorus has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Sadorus than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Sadorus may be for you.
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 percentage of adults in Sadorus with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.02% of adults in Sadorus have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Sadorus in 2022 was $38,037, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $152,148 for a family of four.
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. Important ancestries of people in Sadorus include German, Irish, English, Scots-Irish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Sadorus is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish 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 Sadorus, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Sadorus is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in IL, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 88.5% of the neighborhoods in Illinois. If you are considering retiring to Illinois, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
Significantly, 0.6% 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 95.5% 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 middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.1% 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 60.6% 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, 42.4% 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 22.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.4%), and 16.4% 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 99.0% of households.
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 Sadorus, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (5.9%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (53.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.7%) 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.