Hoopeston is a very small city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 4,731 people and just one neighborhood, Hoopeston is the 346th largest community in Illinois. Hoopeston has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
Hoopeston is a blue-collar town, with 38.62% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Hoopeston is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hoopeston who work in sales jobs (19.80%), healthcare suport services (7.64%), and office and administrative support (5.35%).
Also of interest is that Hoopeston has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Hoopeston 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. Hoopeston has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hoopeston than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hoopeston may be for you.
In Hoopeston, just 8.22% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Hoopeston in 2022 was $27,731, which is low income relative to Illinois, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $110,924 for a family of four. However, Hoopeston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Hoopeston home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hoopeston residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Hoopeston include English, German, Irish, Norwegian, and Danish.
The most common language spoken in Hoopeston is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry.
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 Hoopeston are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.2% of U.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, 38.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.1%), and 13.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.1%).
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 Hoopeston, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.9%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (4.2%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (75.7%) 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 (13.9%) and 6.8% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.