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Tolono - Philo, IL

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Overview


Tolono - Philo is a somewhat small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 5,936 people and just one neighborhood, Tolono - Philo is the 298th largest community in Illinois. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Tolono - Philo, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Tolono - Philo, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Tolono - Philo’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Tolono - Philo does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $99,674.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Tolono - Philo is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Tolono - Philo is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tolono - Philo who work in management occupations (13.32%), teaching (10.35%), and sales jobs (9.75%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.63% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Tolono - Philo 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 town’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, Tolono - Philo’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Tolono - Philo is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 32.99% of adults in Tolono - Philo have a college degree.

The per capita income in Tolono - Philo in 2018 was $42,641, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $170,564 for a family of four. However, Tolono - Philo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Tolono - Philo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

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

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 Tolono - Philo are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 75.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.6% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 79.9% of America'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, 43.7% 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 24.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.3%), and 9.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.7% 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 Tolono - Philo, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.2%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (6.2%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (62.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.4%) 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 (7.0%) . 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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