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Dwight, IL

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Overview


Dwight is a very small village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 4,000 people and just one neighborhood, Dwight is the 395th largest community in Illinois. Dwight has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Dwight is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.88% of the Dwight workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Dwight is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dwight who work in sales jobs (11.82%), food service (9.79%), and office and administrative support (8.95%).

Setting & Lifestyle

As is often the case in a small village, Dwight doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Dwight who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.60% of the adults in Dwight have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Dwight in 2018 was $35,794, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $143,176 for a family of four. However, Dwight contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish 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 96.6% 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 Dwight are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 25.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 37.9% 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 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.4%), and 9.4% 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 96.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Polish and Spanish.

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 Dwight, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (19.1%), and residents who report English roots (11.8%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (8.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (7.4%), 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 (41.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (83.7%) 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 (10.3%) . 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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