About Morrisonville

Morrisonville is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 1,712 people and just one neighborhood, Morrisonville is the 526th largest community in Illinois. Morrisonville has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Unlike some towns , Morrisonville isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Morrisonville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Morrisonville is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Morrisonville who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.26%), sales jobs (9.91%), and farm management (6.86%).

Another important characteristic of Morrisonville 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.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.23% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.

Morrisonville is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Morrisonville isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.26% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

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

Morrisonville Information and Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Morrisonville is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 14.96%: just 11.03% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Morrisonville in 2000 was $16,920, which is lower middle income relative to Illinois, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $67,680 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Morrisonville is English.