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Wayne City, IL

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Overview


Wayne City is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 986 people and just one neighborhood, Wayne City is the 680th largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Wayne City, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.63% of Wayne City’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Wayne City is a village of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wayne City who work in management occupations (11.32%), teaching (9.74%), and sales jobs (7.89%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Wayne City has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Wayne City has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Wayne City than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Wayne City may be for you.

One downside of living in Wayne City is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Wayne City, the average commute to work is 31.85 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Wayne City rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.60% of adults 25 and older in Wayne City have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Wayne City in 2018 was $27,974, which is lower middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $111,896 for a family of four. However, Wayne City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Wayne City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wayne City residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Wayne City include German, English, Irish, French, and Scots-Irish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.7% of all neighborhoods in America, with 35.1% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

In addition, 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 18 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.3% of 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 Wayne City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.9% 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, 33.1% 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 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.5%), and 14.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Wayne City, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.1%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.4%) 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 (6.6%) . 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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