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St. David - Dunfermline, IL

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Overview


St. David - Dunfermline is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 2,305 people and just one neighborhood, St. David - Dunfermline is the 543rd largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, St. David - Dunfermline is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, St. David - Dunfermline is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in St. David - Dunfermline who work in office and administrative support (12.65%), maintenance occupations (9.49%), and sales jobs (8.85%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet town 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!) St. David - Dunfermline 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. St. David - Dunfermline has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in St. David - Dunfermline than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, St. David - Dunfermline may be for you.

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

Demographics

The citizens of St. David - Dunfermline are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.62% of adults in St. David - Dunfermline have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in St. David - Dunfermline in 2018 was $31,270, 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 $125,080 for a family of four. However, St. David - Dunfermline contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call St. David - Dunfermline home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of St. David - Dunfermline residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in St. David - Dunfermline include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Finnish.

The most common language spoken in St. David - Dunfermline is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Serbo-Croatian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 St. David - Dunfermline, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

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 17 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.4% of America. 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 Croatian and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 2.7% have Finnish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in St. David - Dunfermline are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.1% 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, 32.2% 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 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.4%), and 16.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in St. David - Dunfermline, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.2%), along with some Finnish ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (28.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (86.0%) 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 (9.7%) . 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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