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Gibson City, IL

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Overview


Gibson City is a very small city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 3,401 people and just one neighborhood, Gibson City is the 439th largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Gibson City isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Gibson City are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Gibson City is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gibson City who work in sales jobs (14.29%), teaching (9.96%), and healthcare (9.06%).

Also of interest is that Gibson City has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.67% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Gibson City who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.38% of the adults in Gibson City have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Gibson City in 2018 was $32,620, which is middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $130,480 for a family of four. However, Gibson City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Gibson City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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 Gibson City, 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 Romanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Romanian ancestry.

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 Gibson City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.2% 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, 37.1% 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 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.3%), and 7.9% 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 95.9% 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 Gibson City, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (18.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.7%), and some of the residents are also of Romanian ancestry (2.5%), along with some Polish 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 (49.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (74.8%) 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 (13.3%) . 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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