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Pinckneyville, IL

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Overview


Pinckneyville is a somewhat small city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 5,005 people and just one neighborhood, Pinckneyville is the 339th largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

Pinckneyville is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 88.81% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Pinckneyville is a city of service providers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Pinckneyville who work in management occupations (22.93%), office and administrative support (10.79%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (10.18%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Pinckneyville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.32 minutes getting to work every day.

Being a small city, Pinckneyville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Pinckneyville with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.01% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Pinckneyville in 2022 was $18,953, which is low income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $75,812 for a family of four. However, Pinckneyville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Pinckneyville is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Pinckneyville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pinckneyville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pinckneyville include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Italian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.3% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.

In addition, if you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Pinckneyville is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in IL, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 88.6% of the neighborhoods in Illinois. If you are considering retiring to Illinois, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 89.1% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 95.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Pinckneyville 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 15.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.7% 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, 36.6% 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 27.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.8%), and 14.5% 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 93.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Polish and Italian.

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 Pinckneyville, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.4%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.0%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (53.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (89.1%) 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 (5.3%) . 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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