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Zeigler - Royalton, IL

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Overview


Zeigler - Royalton is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 3,578 people and just one neighborhood, Zeigler - Royalton is the 422nd largest community in Illinois. Zeigler - Royalton has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Zeigler - Royalton isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Zeigler - Royalton are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Zeigler - Royalton is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Zeigler - Royalton who work in office and administrative support (11.95%), sales jobs (8.90%), and management occupations (8.46%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The citizens of Zeigler - Royalton are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.61% of adults in Zeigler - Royalton have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Zeigler - Royalton in 2018 was $27,840, which is lower middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $111,360 for a family of four. However, Zeigler - Royalton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Zeigler - Royalton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Diversity

Significantly, 7.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Zeigler - Royalton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 28.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 27.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.9%), and 19.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Zeigler - Royalton, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.1%), and residents who report Italian roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.1%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.7%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (83.5%) 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 (7.9%) . 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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