Marquette Heights is a very small city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 2,490 people and just one neighborhood, Marquette Heights is the 520th largest community in Illinois.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Marquette Heights is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Marquette Heights is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Marquette Heights who work in office and administrative support (12.67%), management occupations (8.69%), and teaching (7.14%).
Marquette Heights is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The city’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Marquette Heights’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
Marquette Heights 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.
The citizens of Marquette Heights are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.27% of adults in Marquette Heights having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Marquette Heights in 2022 was $35,674, which is middle income relative to Illinois, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $142,696 for a family of four. However, Marquette Heights contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Marquette Heights home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Marquette Heights residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Marquette Heights include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Marquette Heights is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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.
The neighborhood has earned the amazing distinction of having one of the highest rates of detached, single-family homes of any neighborhood in the U.S. With 99.9% of the residential real estate here made up of free-standing single-family homes, there is a greater proportion of single-family homes here than in 98.7% of all 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 Marquette Heights are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 18.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.1% of U.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, 34.8% 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 30.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.2%), and 16.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.8% of households.
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 Marquette Heights, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.8%), and residents who report English roots (13.0%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (3.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (60.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.9%) 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 (9.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.