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Yates City - Williamsfield, IL

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Overview


Yates City - Williamsfield is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 2,937 people and just one neighborhood, Yates City - Williamsfield is the 475th largest community in Illinois. Much of the housing stock in Yates City - Williamsfield was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Yates City - Williamsfield is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Yates City - Williamsfield is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Yates City - Williamsfield who work in office and administrative support (15.32%), management occupations (9.08%), and healthcare (7.31%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The citizens of Yates City - Williamsfield are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.12% of adults in Yates City - Williamsfield have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Yates City - Williamsfield in 2022 was $34,183, which is middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $136,732 for a family of four. However, Yates City - Williamsfield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Yates City - Williamsfield home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Yates City - Williamsfield residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Yates City - Williamsfield include German, English, Irish, Swedish, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Yates City - Williamsfield is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Some neighborhoods are made up of apartments. Some consist of row houses, and most - by far - consist of a mixture of housing types. But the neighborhood stands out due to the total dominance of detached, single-family homes here. There are nearly no other types of residential real estate in the neighborhood. In fact, this neighborhood has a higher proportion of single-family homes in its real estate stock than 96.2% of all American neighborhoods.

In addition, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 16 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Yates City - Williamsfield are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 5.7% 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 62.0% 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, 31.9% 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 30.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.0%), and 15.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.2%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Yates City - Williamsfield, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (15.1%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (3.9%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.2%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (86.3%) 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 (5.4%) . 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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