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Roxana, IL

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Overview


Roxana is a very small village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 1,426 people and just one neighborhood, Roxana is the 634th largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

Roxana is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Roxana is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Roxana who work in management occupations (10.96%), office and administrative support (10.83%), and maintenance occupations (10.01%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The village is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Roxana has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Roxana a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Demographics

The education level of Roxana citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.33% of adults 25 and older in Roxana have a college degree.

The per capita income in Roxana in 2022 was $36,773, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $147,092 for a family of four. However, Roxana contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Roxana home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Roxana residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Roxana include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.

The most common language spoken in Roxana is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Tagalog.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Yugoslav ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Roxana are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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In the neighborhood, 34.8% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.3%), and 10.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Roxana, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (19.4%), and residents who report English roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (5.6%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (80.6%) 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 (11.7%) . 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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