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Andalusia, IL

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Overview


Andalusia is a very small village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 1,159 people and just one neighborhood, Andalusia is the 659th largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Andalusia, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.16% of Andalusia’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Andalusia is a village of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Andalusia who work in office and administrative support (15.37%), sales jobs (9.01%), and healthcare (8.83%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The village is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Andalusia has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Andalusia a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

As is often the case in a small village, Andalusia doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The citizens of Andalusia are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.84% of adults in Andalusia have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Andalusia in 2022 was $36,828, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $147,312 for a family of four. However, Andalusia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 9.0% have Swedish ancestry.

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 Andalusia are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 33.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.6% 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, 38.8% 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 28.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.0%), and 13.1% 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 95.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include 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 Andalusia, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.4%), and residents who report Swedish roots (9.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.6%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (5.3%), 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 (40.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.7%) 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 (7.8%) . 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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