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Grandview, IL

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Overview


Grandview is a very small village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 1,386 people and just one neighborhood, Grandview is the 636th largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Grandview is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Grandview is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Grandview who work in office and administrative support (14.79%), healthcare (10.69%), and food service (7.91%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One of the benefits of Grandview is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.59 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Grandview with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.23% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Grandview in 2018 was $30,502, 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 $122,008 for a family of four. However, Grandview contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Significantly, 3.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.2% 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 Grandview are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 30.8% 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 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.5%), and 17.9% 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 93.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, French and Spanish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Grandview, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.5%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (4.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.5%) 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 (9.7%) . 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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