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Sesser, IL

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Overview


Sesser is a very small city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 1,861 people and just one neighborhood, Sesser is the 586th largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Sesser is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sesser is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sesser who work in office and administrative support (18.81%), teaching (9.47%), and healthcare (9.21%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Sesser, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.90 minutes every day commuting to work.

As is often the case in a small city, Sesser doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The citizens of Sesser are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.94% of adults in Sesser have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Sesser in 2018 was $25,028, which is low income relative to Illinois, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $100,112 for a family of four. However, Sesser contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Sesser home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sesser residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Sesser include English, German, Irish, Italian, and European.

The most common language spoken in Sesser 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 Sesser, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Yugoslav and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Yugoslav ancestry and 0.8% have Croatian 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 Sesser are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 30.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.5% 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, 32.4% 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 31.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.5%), and 13.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish, Italian and Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region).

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 Sesser, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.0%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 (33.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (80.2%) 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 (14.7%) . 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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