Beecher City is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 421 people and just one neighborhood, Beecher City is the 764th largest community in Illinois.
Beecher City real estate is some of the most expensive in Illinois, although Beecher City house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Beecher City is a blue-collar town, with 44.22% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Beecher City is a village of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Beecher City who work in food service (16.58%), sales jobs (9.55%), and office and administrative support (6.03%).
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!) Beecher City 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. Beecher City has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Beecher City than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Beecher City may be for you.
Beecher City is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In Beecher City, just 11.28% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Beecher City in 2022 was $25,132, which is low income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $100,528 for a family of four. However, Beecher City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Beecher City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Beecher City residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Beecher City include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Beecher City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Greek.
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.
If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 15.0% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Illinois. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 49.6% of this neighborhood's residents have German 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 Beecher City are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 67.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 63.1% of America'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, 41.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.1%), and 13.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.2%).
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 Beecher City, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (49.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.8%), and residents who report English roots (11.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (1.2%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (1.1%), 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 (41.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (87.3%) 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 (5.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.