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Jonesboro, IL

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Overview


Jonesboro is a very small city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 1,643 people and just one neighborhood, Jonesboro is the 607th largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Jonesboro is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Jonesboro is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Jonesboro who work in healthcare (15.78%), office and administrative support (10.89%), and healthcare suport services (9.36%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Jonesboro is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Jonesboro is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 25.80% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Jonesboro in 2022 was $26,541, which is low income relative to Illinois, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $106,164 for a family of four. However, Jonesboro contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Jonesboro is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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The Neighbors

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 Jonesboro are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.5% 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, 40.3% 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 21.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.0%), and 17.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% 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 Jonesboro, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (1.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (43.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (85.8%) 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 (10.7%) . 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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