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Cissna Park, IL

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Overview


Cissna Park is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 795 people and just one neighborhood, Cissna Park is the 704th largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages, Cissna Park isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Cissna Park are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cissna Park is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cissna Park who work in office and administrative support (17.30%), management occupations (14.08%), and art, media, and design (9.09%).

Of important note, Cissna Park is also a village of artists. Cissna Park has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Cissna Park’s character.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.21% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Cissna Park’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

Demographics

The overall education level of Cissna Park citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 30.29% of adults in Cissna Park have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.

The per capita income in Cissna Park in 2018 was $38,074, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $152,296 for a family of four. However, Cissna Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Cissna Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 13 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.3% of America.

People

If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 9.9% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in Illinois, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in Illinois.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 48.6% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 2.8% have Swiss 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 Cissna Park are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.4% 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 63.4% of America'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, 35.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 25.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.6%), and 16.1% 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 95.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

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 Cissna Park, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (48.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report English roots (6.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.8%), along with some Swiss ancestry residents (2.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (78.4%) 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 (7.3%) . 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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