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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 1,382 people and just one neighborhood, Olive Branch - Thebes is the 631st largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Olive Branch - Thebes, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.19% of Olive Branch - Thebes’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Olive Branch - Thebes is a town of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Olive Branch - Thebes who work in food service (12.79%), management occupations (11.63%), and maintenance occupations (8.53%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Olive Branch - Thebes’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Olive Branch - Thebes has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Olive Branch - Thebes has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Olive Branch - Thebes than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Olive Branch - Thebes may be for you.

In Olive Branch - Thebes, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.90 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Olive Branch - Thebes does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Olive Branch - Thebes have a very low rate of college education: just 8.06% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Olive Branch - Thebes in 2022 was $21,248, which is low income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $84,992 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, Scots-Irish, and French.

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

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 Olive Branch - Thebes, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 44.2% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.7% of American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 96.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 33.2%, which is higher than 95.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish 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 Olive Branch - Thebes are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.0% 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, 44.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 23.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.4%), and 8.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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

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 Olive Branch - Thebes, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (3.3%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 (54.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (78.9%) 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 (15.2%) . 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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