Johnston City is a very small city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 3,325 people and just one neighborhood, Johnston City is the 442nd largest community in Illinois. Johnston City has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.
Unlike some cities, Johnston City isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Johnston City are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Johnston City is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Johnston City who work in sales jobs (15.29%), healthcare (14.03%), and teaching (8.37%).
One of the benefits of Johnston City is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 15.85 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
The population of Johnston City overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Johnston City, 23.54% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Johnston City in 2022 was $30,321, which is lower middle income relative to Illinois, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $121,284 for a family of four. However, Johnston City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Johnston City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Johnston City residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Johnston City include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Johnston City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Italian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry.
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 Johnston City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 38.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.1%), and 8.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 97.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Chinese.
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 Johnston City, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (17.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.4%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.2%), 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 (56.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.6%) 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 (11.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.