Waverly - Franklin is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 3,123 people and just one neighborhood, Waverly - Franklin is the 454th largest community in Illinois. Waverly - Franklin has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Waverly - Franklin is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Waverly - Franklin is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Waverly - Franklin who work in office and administrative support (12.68%), management occupations (9.33%), and teaching (8.41%).
Because of many things, Waverly - Franklin is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Waverly - Franklin really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Waverly - Franklin perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
Waverly - Franklin is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, Waverly - Franklin is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.59% of adults 25 and older in Waverly - Franklin have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Waverly - Franklin in 2022 was $36,231, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $144,924 for a family of four. However, Waverly - Franklin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Waverly - Franklin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Waverly - Franklin residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Waverly - Franklin include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Waverly - Franklin is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 27 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.3% of America.
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 Waverly - Franklin are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.6% 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 51.6% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 34.2% 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 31.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.9%), and 16.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households.
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 Waverly - Franklin, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.9%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.6%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.1%), among others.
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 (31.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (85.9%) 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 (5.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.