About Leaf River

Leaf River is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 2,025 people and just one neighborhood, Leaf River is the 493rd largest community in Illinois.

Leaf River is a blue-collar town, with 44.8% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Leaf River is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Leaf River who work in office and administrative support jobs (19.55%), farm management (7.56%), and food service (5.21%).

Another important characteristic of Leaf River is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their homes - 9.92% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Because of many things, Leaf River 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, Leaf River really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Leaf River perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, 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.

In Leaf River, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.82 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Leaf River does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Leaf River Information and Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Leaf River is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 14.96%: just 9.90% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Leaf River in 2000 was $20,161, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $80,644 for a family of four.

The people who call Leaf River home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Leaf River is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Leaf River include German, English, Irish, Swedish, Italian, and Scotch-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Leaf River is English.