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Fieldon, IL

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Overview


Fieldon is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 166 people and just one neighborhood, Fieldon is the 791st largest community in Illinois. Much of the housing stock in Fieldon was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Fieldon is a blue-collar town, with 45.56% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Fieldon is a village of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Fieldon who work in food service (13.33%), healthcare (11.11%), and office and administrative support (8.89%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Fieldon’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Fieldon has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Fieldon has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Fieldon than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Fieldon may be for you.

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

Demographics

The population of Fieldon has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.26% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Fieldon in 2022 was $29,276, which is lower middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $117,104 for a family of four. However, Fieldon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Fieldon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fieldon residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Fieldon include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and French.

The most common language spoken in Fieldon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 17 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 35.4% of this neighborhood's residents have German 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 Fieldon are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.8% 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 65.4% 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, 29.7% 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 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.9%), and 19.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households.

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 Fieldon, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (35.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.2%), and residents who report English roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.2%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (85.6%) 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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