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Mackinaw - Deer Creek is a somewhat small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 5,829 people and just one neighborhood, Mackinaw - Deer Creek is the 306th largest community in Illinois.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Mackinaw - Deer Creek is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mackinaw - Deer Creek is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Mackinaw - Deer Creek who work in office and administrative support (14.68%), teaching (8.86%), and management occupations (8.20%).
Also of interest is that Mackinaw - Deer Creek has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Setting & Lifestyle
Because of many things, Mackinaw - Deer Creek is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Mackinaw - Deer Creek a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Mackinaw - Deer Creek has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Mackinaw - Deer Creek’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
One downside of living in Mackinaw - Deer Creek, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.05 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Mackinaw - Deer Creek doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The education level of Mackinaw - Deer Creek citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 33.81% of adults in Mackinaw - Deer Creek have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Mackinaw - Deer Creek in 2022 was $43,359, which is wealthy relative to Illinois, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $173,436 for a family of four. However, Mackinaw - Deer Creek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Mackinaw - Deer Creek home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mackinaw - Deer Creek residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mackinaw - Deer Creek include German, English, Irish, Polish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Mackinaw - Deer Creek is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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 Mackinaw - Deer Creek, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
People
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 9.9% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Illinois. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 0.4% have Yugoslav ancestry.
The Neighbors
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 Mackinaw - Deer Creek are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 75.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.8% 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 62.2% of America'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, 41.4% 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 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.1%), and 14.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.5%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Mackinaw - Deer Creek, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.6%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (4.6%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.1%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 (43.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (81.0%) 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 (11.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
