Ashland - Chandlerville is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 2,174 people and just one neighborhood, Ashland - Chandlerville is the 556th largest community in Illinois.
Unlike some towns, Ashland - Chandlerville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Ashland - Chandlerville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Ashland - Chandlerville is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Ashland - Chandlerville who work in office and administrative support (15.77%), sales jobs (9.04%), and management occupations (8.83%).
Overall, Ashland - Chandlerville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Being a small town, Ashland - Chandlerville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Ashland - Chandlerville citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.26% of adults 25 and older in Ashland - Chandlerville have a college degree.
The per capita income in Ashland - Chandlerville in 2022 was $32,524, which is middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $130,096 for a family of four. However, Ashland - Chandlerville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Ashland - Chandlerville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ashland - Chandlerville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ashland - Chandlerville include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Belgian.
The most common language spoken in Ashland - Chandlerville is English. Other important languages spoken here include West Germanic languages and Polish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
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 19 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.9% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry.
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 Ashland - Chandlerville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.5% of U.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, 27.3% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.7%), and 20.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.5%).
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 Ashland - Chandlerville, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (19.6%), and residents who report English roots (12.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.8%), along with some Belgian ancestry residents (1.3%), among others.
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 (36.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.0%) 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 (12.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.