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Mount Erie, IL

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Overview


Mount Erie is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 98 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Erie is the 805th largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Mount Erie, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 46.88% of Mount Erie’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Mount Erie is a village of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Erie who work in office and administrative support (20.31%), management occupations (7.81%), and maintenance occupations (6.25%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

The village is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Mount Erie has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mount Erie a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Mount Erie, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.23 minutes every day commuting to work.

Mount Erie is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The population of Mount Erie has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.95% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Mount Erie in 2018 was $23,533, which is low income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $94,132 for a family of four. However, Mount Erie contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Mount Erie home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Erie residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Mount Erie include German, English, French, Italian, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Mount Erie is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and West Germanic languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 96.7% of the neighborhoods in 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.

In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 33.5% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

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 8.9% 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.

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 Mount Erie are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 28.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.8% 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, 31.3% 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 31.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.7%), and 17.3% 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 96.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

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 Mount Erie, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.9%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 (38.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (84.9%) 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 (5.9%) . 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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