Arcola is a very small city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 2,890 people and just one neighborhood, Arcola is the 487th largest community in Illinois.
Arcola is a blue-collar town, with 45.19% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Arcola is a city of transportation and shipping workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Arcola who work in office and administrative support (12.24%), healthcare (6.05%), and architecture and engineering (5.64%).
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Arcola spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.06 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
Arcola is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, Arcola is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.79% of adults 25 and older in Arcola have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Arcola in 2022 was $30,386, which is lower middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $121,544 for a family of four. However, Arcola contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Arcola is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Arcola home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Arcola residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Arcola also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 45.76% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Arcola include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Arcola is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 62.3% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 41.7% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.3% of American neighborhoods.
Significantly, 5.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Arcola are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.9% 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, 41.7% 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 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.9%), and 13.5% 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 62.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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 Arcola, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (37.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (20.8%), and residents who report English roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.3%), among others. In addition, 11.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (62.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (72.4%) 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 (18.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.