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Lovington - Dalton City, IL

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Overview


Lovington - Dalton City is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 2,322 people and just one neighborhood, Lovington - Dalton City is the 541st largest community in Illinois. Lovington - Dalton City has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

Lovington - Dalton City is a blue-collar town, with 41.99% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Lovington - Dalton City is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lovington - Dalton City who work in management occupations (12.90%), office and administrative support (10.13%), and sales jobs (7.71%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The citizens of Lovington - Dalton City are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.10% of adults in Lovington - Dalton City have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Lovington - Dalton City in 2018 was $27,005, which is lower middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $108,020 for a family of four. However, Lovington - Dalton City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Lovington - Dalton City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lovington - Dalton City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lovington - Dalton City include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Welsh.

The most common language spoken in Lovington - Dalton City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.

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.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 24 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.9% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh 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 Lovington - Dalton City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.0% 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, 39.2% 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 30.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.5%), and 12.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.8%).

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 Lovington - Dalton City, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.5%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (2.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.4%) 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 (12.7%) . 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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