Gardner - South Wilmington is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 3,633 people and just one neighborhood, Gardner - South Wilmington is the 429th largest community in Illinois.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Gardner - South Wilmington is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.88% of the Gardner - South Wilmington workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Gardner - South Wilmington is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Gardner - South Wilmington who work in office and administrative support (11.20%), healthcare (9.28%), and management occupations (7.53%).
Overall, Gardner - South Wilmington’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
In Gardner - South Wilmington, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.06 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Gardner - South Wilmington does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Gardner - South Wilmington rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.77% of adults 25 and older in Gardner - South Wilmington have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Gardner - South Wilmington in 2022 was $35,876, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $143,504 for a family of four. However, Gardner - South Wilmington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Gardner - South Wilmington is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Gardner - South Wilmington home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gardner - South Wilmington residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Gardner - South Wilmington also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.88% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Gardner - South Wilmington include German, Italian, Irish, Polish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Gardner - South Wilmington 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.
Our research reveals that 94.0% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 99.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian and Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry and 0.7% have Yugoslav ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.0% 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 Gardner - South Wilmington are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.3% 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, 39.2% 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 29.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.2%), and 13.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.8% of households. Some people also speak Polish (7.9%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Gardner - South Wilmington, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.3%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (16.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.4%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (10.0%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (8.4%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.6% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (94.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.