Coulterville is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 835 people and just one neighborhood, Coulterville is the 702nd largest community in Illinois.
Coulterville is a blue-collar town, with 38.02% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Coulterville is a village of professionals, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Coulterville who work in teaching (8.75%), computer science and math (8.75%), and maintenance occupations (6.84%).
Also of interest is that Coulterville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Of important note, Coulterville is also a village of artists. Coulterville has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Coulterville’s character.
A relatively large number of people in Coulterville telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.81% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Coulterville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
Coulterville is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Coulterville are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.51% of adults in Coulterville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Coulterville in 2022 was $24,480, which is low income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $97,920 for a family of four. However, Coulterville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Coulterville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Coulterville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Coulterville include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Lebanese.
The most common language spoken in Coulterville 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 Coulterville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 30 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.7% of America.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Coulterville is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in IL, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 85.1% of the neighborhoods in Illinois. If you are considering retiring to Illinois, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lebanese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Lebanese ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Portuguese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Coulterville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.4% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 60.4% of America'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, 32.8% 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 32.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.7%), and 10.7% 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 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 Coulterville, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.3%), and residents who report English roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 (36.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (81.8%) 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 (7.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.