St. Elmo is a very small city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 1,245 people and just one neighborhood, St. Elmo is the 652nd largest community in Illinois.
St. Elmo is a blue-collar town, with 37.42% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, St. Elmo is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in St. Elmo who work in management occupations (15.27%), office and administrative support (10.40%), and food service (9.56%).
Being a small city, St. Elmo does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of St. Elmo has a very low overall level of education: only 8.66% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in St. Elmo in 2022 was $22,585, which is low income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $90,340 for a family of four. However, St. Elmo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call St. Elmo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of St. Elmo residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in St. Elmo include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in St. Elmo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Greek.
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 33 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.2% of America.
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 St. Elmo are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.2% 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, 31.4% 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 31.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.7%), and 15.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.0% 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 St. Elmo, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.1%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.5%), among others.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.8%) 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.