Carlinville is a somewhat small city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 5,531 people and just one neighborhood, Carlinville is the 315th largest community in Illinois. Carlinville has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
Unlike some cities, Carlinville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Carlinville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Carlinville is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Carlinville who work in sales jobs (11.56%), food service (11.25%), and office and administrative support (9.91%).
Also of interest is that Carlinville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Being a small city, Carlinville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Carlinville is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 25.87% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Carlinville in 2022 was $32,225, which is middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $128,900 for a family of four. However, Carlinville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Carlinville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Carlinville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Carlinville include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Carlinville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 91.1% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.5% of all American neighborhoods.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.6%) living in the neighborhood.
Significantly, 8.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Carlinville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.8% 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, 33.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 31.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.0%), and 16.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 97.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Spanish and Polish.
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 Carlinville, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.7%), and residents who report English roots (14.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.8%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (91.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.