Odin is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 910 people and just one neighborhood, Odin is the 689th largest community in Illinois.
Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Odin is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Odin is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Odin who work in sales jobs (17.66%), management occupations (14.43%), and office and administrative support (9.70%).
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!) Odin 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. Odin has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Odin than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Odin may be for you.
Odin is very much a car-oriented village. This is because the population of Odin isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 98.49% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
As is often the case in a small village, Odin doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Odin ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.31% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Odin in 2022 was $26,388, 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 $105,552 for a family of four. However, Odin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Odin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Odin residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Odin include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Odin is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 88.2% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.1% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Eastern European ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Eastern European 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 Odin are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.9% 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, 33.8% 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 26.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.4%), and 15.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.7% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.8%).
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 Odin, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report English roots (7.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.1%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (1.9%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (88.2%) 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 (6.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.