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Toluca, IL

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Overview


Toluca is a very small city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 1,336 people and just one neighborhood, Toluca is the 646th largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Toluca is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.73% of the Toluca workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Toluca is a city of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Toluca who work in maintenance occupations (11.13%), management occupations (6.36%), and sales jobs (6.16%).

Also of interest is that Toluca has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the city 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, Toluca is worth considering.

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

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Toluca is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.88% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Toluca in 2018 was $32,193, which is middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $128,772 for a family of four. However, Toluca contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Toluca is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Toluca home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Toluca residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Toluca also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.57% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Toluca include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Croatian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 43.7% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.4% of American neighborhoods.

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 94.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 36.3% have German ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 13.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Toluca are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 30.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.6% 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, 43.7% 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 25.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.7%), and 10.4% 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 93.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Spanish and Polish.

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 Toluca, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (36.3%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (10.0%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (9.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (86.8%) 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 (6.9%) . 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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