Stickney is a somewhat small village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 6,873 people and just one neighborhood, Stickney is the 278th largest community in Illinois.
Stickney is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Stickney is a village of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Stickney who work in office and administrative support (14.71%), management occupations (10.86%), and computer science and math (9.15%).
Also of interest is that Stickney has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Of important note, Stickney is also a village of artists. Stickney has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Stickney’s character.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.19% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
The education level of Stickney citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.49% of adults 25 and older in Stickney have a college degree.
The per capita income in Stickney in 2022 was $30,078, which is lower middle income relative to Illinois, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $120,312 for a family of four. However, Stickney contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Stickney is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Stickney home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Stickney, accounting for 71.18% of the village’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Stickney residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Stickney include Polish, Irish, Czech, German, and Italian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Stickney's cultural character, accounting for 24.42% of the village’s population.
The most common language spoken in Stickney is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Other Indo-European.
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.
The neighborhood stands out within Illinois for its college student friendly environment. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood is home to a number of college students, is relatively walkable, and above average in safety. In combination, this makes it stand out for a good place for college students to consider. Because a number of college students live here, this neighborhood may be close to a college campus and offer certain amenities nearby geared towards the student body. While it's not an environment for everyone, ambitious scholars can enjoy seasonal excitement between semesters and school breaks, and parents can rest easy knowing that the area has an above average safety rating. For each of these reasons, the neighborhood is rated among the top 8.6% of college-friendly places to live in IL.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Polish and Puerto Rican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 12.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry and 9.9% have Puerto Rican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 58.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 95.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Stickney are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 20.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.2% 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, 37.0% 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 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (16.8%), and 15.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 58.6% of households. Some people also speak English (40.1%).
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 Stickney, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (59.5%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.0%), along with some German ancestry residents (3.5%), among others. In addition, 24.4% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (74.7%) 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 (12.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.