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Sorento, IL

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Overview


Sorento is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 422 people and just one neighborhood, Sorento is the 762nd largest community in Illinois. Sorento has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Sorento, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.44% of Sorento’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Sorento is a village of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sorento who work in maintenance occupations (14.65%), healthcare suport services (9.60%), and office and administrative support (7.58%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Sorento’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

Residents will find that the village is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Sorento is worth considering.

In Sorento, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 41.64 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The population of Sorento has a very low overall level of education: only 6.32% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Sorento in 2018 was $20,899, which is low income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $83,596 for a family of four.

The people who call Sorento home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sorento residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Sorento include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 94.1% of the neighborhoods in 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, 6.0% 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 Sorento 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 16.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.5% 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, 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 29.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.4%), and 13.7% 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 (2.4%).

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 Sorento, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.7%), and residents who report English roots (13.8%), and some of the residents are also of Welsh ancestry (6.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.7%), 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 (37.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (87.6%) 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 (7.3%) . 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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