Roxana is a very small village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 1,413 people and just one neighborhood, Roxana is the 634th largest community in Illinois.
Roxana is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Roxana is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Roxana who work in management occupations (10.96%), office and administrative support (10.83%), and maintenance occupations (10.01%).
The village is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Roxana has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Roxana a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
The percentage of adults in Roxana who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.33% of the adults in Roxana have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Roxana in 2022 was $36,773, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $147,092 for a family of four. However, Roxana contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Roxana home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Roxana residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Roxana include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Roxana is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Tagalog.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Yugoslav 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 Roxana are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.4% 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, 34.8% 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 31.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.3%), and 10.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Roxana, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (19.4%), and residents who report English roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (5.6%), 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 (36.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.6%) 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 (11.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.