Clay City - Xenia is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 2,860 people and just one neighborhood, Clay City - Xenia is the 486th largest community in Illinois.
Unlike some towns, Clay City - Xenia isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Clay City - Xenia are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Clay City - Xenia is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Clay City - Xenia who work in office and administrative support (11.04%), architecture and engineering (10.89%), and sales jobs (9.84%).
In terms of college education, Clay City - Xenia is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.79% of adults 25 and older in Clay City - Xenia have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Clay City - Xenia in 2022 was $41,070, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $164,280 for a family of four. However, Clay City - Xenia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Clay City - Xenia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Clay City - Xenia residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Clay City - Xenia include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Northern European.
The most common language spoken in Clay City - Xenia is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Clay City - Xenia, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Our research reveals that 89.8% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 30.5% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 27 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.3% of 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 Clay City - Xenia are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.3% 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, 36.3% 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 28.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.8%), and 13.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households.
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 Clay City - Xenia, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.1%), and residents who report English roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (4.3%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 (50.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (89.8%) 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 (6.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.