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Edinburg - Mount Auburn, IL

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Overview


Edinburg - Mount Auburn is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 2,791 people and just one neighborhood, Edinburg - Mount Auburn is the 496th largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Edinburg - Mount Auburn is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.65% of the Edinburg - Mount Auburn workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Edinburg - Mount Auburn is a town of service providers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Edinburg - Mount Auburn who work in management occupations (12.12%), office and administrative support (11.06%), and food service (7.75%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.13% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Being a small town, Edinburg - Mount Auburn does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Edinburg - Mount Auburn with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.64% of adults in Edinburg - Mount Auburn have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Edinburg - Mount Auburn in 2018 was $34,812, which is middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $139,248 for a family of four. However, Edinburg - Mount Auburn contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Edinburg - Mount Auburn is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Real Estate

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 20 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.8% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.2% of this neighborhood's residents have British 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 Edinburg - Mount Auburn are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.2% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 60.8% of America'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, 33.3% 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 30.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.6%), and 13.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.4%).

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 Edinburg - Mount Auburn, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.9%), along with some British ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 (36.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.3%) 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 (10.6%) . 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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