Clay City - Xenia is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 2,860 people and just one neighborhood, Clay City - Xenia is the 486th largest community in Illinois.
When you are in Clay City - Xenia, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.41% of Clay City - Xenia’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Clay City - Xenia is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Clay City - Xenia who work in office and administrative support (12.40%), architecture and engineering (9.52%), and sales jobs (9.36%).
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Clay City - Xenia spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 19.00 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
The citizens of Clay City - Xenia are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.35% of adults in Clay City - Xenia have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Clay City - Xenia in 2022 was $43,136, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $172,544 for a family of four. However, Clay City - Xenia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Clay City - Xenia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Clay City - Xenia residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Clay City - Xenia include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Northern European.
The most common language spoken in Clay City - Xenia is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Clay City - Xenia, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Our research reveals that 91.7% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 98.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 27 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.3% 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 Clay City - Xenia are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.9% 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, 32.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional 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 (17.7%), and 15.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% of households.
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 Clay City - Xenia, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.4%), and residents who report English roots (6.1%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (4.6%).
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 (50.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (91.7%) 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.