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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

Wayne City is a blue-collar town, with 37.07% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Wayne City is a village of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Wayne City who work in management occupations (12.00%), sales jobs (8.53%), and teaching (8.53%).

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.

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Wayne City who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.19% of the adults in Wayne City have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Wayne City in 2018 was $25,879, which is lower middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $103,516 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, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Wayne City include German, English, Irish, Dutch, 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

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Wayne City, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 33.4% 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, 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 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch 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 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 71.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.8% 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, 35.1% 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 26.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.9%), and 15.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% 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 (17.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (3.9%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 (38.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (87.9%) 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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