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Oreana, IL

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Overview


Oreana is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 866 people and just one neighborhood, Oreana is the 694th largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages, Oreana isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Oreana are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Oreana is a village of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Oreana who work in management occupations (17.57%), office and administrative support (17.22%), and food service (5.57%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Oreana is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Oreana really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Oreana perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Being a small village, Oreana does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Oreana who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 26.01% of adults in Oreana have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Oreana in 2018 was $34,260, which is middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $137,040 for a family of four. However, Oreana contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Oreana is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

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, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry.

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 Oreana are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.8% of U.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, 33.0% 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 clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.6%), and 19.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.9%).

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 Oreana, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (18.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (4.1%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 (44.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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