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Gilman - Onarga, IL

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Overview


Gilman - Onarga is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 3,408 people and just one neighborhood, Gilman - Onarga is the 437th largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Gilman - Onarga is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.84% of the Gilman - Onarga workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Gilman - Onarga is a town of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gilman - Onarga who work in management occupations (9.06%), healthcare (8.92%), and teaching (6.57%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Gilman - Onarga is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The citizens of Gilman - Onarga are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.67% of adults in Gilman - Onarga have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Gilman - Onarga in 2018 was $29,835, 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 $119,340 for a family of four. However, Gilman - Onarga contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Gilman - Onarga is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Gilman - Onarga home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gilman - Onarga residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Gilman - Onarga also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 33.62% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Gilman - Onarga include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Dutch.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Gilman - Onarga's cultural character, accounting for 16.52% of the town’s population.

The most common language spoken in Gilman - Onarga is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.1%) living in the neighborhood.

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 Gilman - Onarga are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 4.1% 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 67.7% 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, 39.3% 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 32.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.8%), and 10.1% 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 69.3% 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 Gilman - Onarga, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (31.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (26.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.2%), among others. In addition, 16.5% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 (49.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (79.9%) 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 (13.0%) . 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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