Hutsonville is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 477 people and just one neighborhood, Hutsonville is the 754th largest community in Illinois.
When you are in Hutsonville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.41% of Hutsonville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Hutsonville is a village of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hutsonville who work in food service (11.89%), healthcare suport services (10.49%), and office and administrative support (6.99%).
Being a small village, Hutsonville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Hutsonville overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Hutsonville, 21.85% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Hutsonville in 2018 was $21,423, which is low income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,692 for a family of four. However, Hutsonville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Hutsonville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.73% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Hutsonville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hutsonville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Hutsonville include Irish, English, German, French, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Hutsonville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 19 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 5.8% 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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.
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 Hutsonville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.1% 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 58.9% of America'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, 40.9% 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 29.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.5%), and 8.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.3% of households.
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 Hutsonville, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.8%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.1%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (2.5%), among others.
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 (44.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (84.2%) 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 (12.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.