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Olive Branch - Thebes, IL

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Overview


Olive Branch - Thebes is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 1,336 people and just one neighborhood, Olive Branch - Thebes is the 631st largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Olive Branch - Thebes is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Olive Branch - Thebes is a town of service providers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Olive Branch - Thebes who work in maintenance occupations (14.38%), management occupations (13.96%), and healthcare (9.58%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Olive Branch - Thebes is worth considering.

One downside of living in Olive Branch - Thebes, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.86 minutes every day commuting to work.

As is often the case in a small town, Olive Branch - Thebes doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Olive Branch - Thebes with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.30% of adults in Olive Branch - Thebes have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Olive Branch - Thebes in 2022 was $22,430, which is low income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $89,720 for a family of four. However, Olive Branch - Thebes contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Olive Branch - Thebes is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Olive Branch - Thebes home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Olive Branch - Thebes residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Olive Branch - Thebes include German, English, Irish, French, and Welsh.

The most common language spoken in Olive Branch - Thebes is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 14 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Olive Branch - Thebes are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 91.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.6% 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, 33.1% 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 32.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.2%), and 11.5% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Olive Branch - Thebes, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (2.3%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (78.6%) 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 (15.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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