Galatia is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 799 people and just one neighborhood, Galatia is the 703rd largest community in Illinois.
Unlike some villages, Galatia isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Galatia are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Galatia is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Galatia who work in sales jobs (20.55%), office and administrative support (9.82%), and maintenance occupations (8.68%).
It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Galatia has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Galatia has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Galatia than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Galatia may be for you.
One downside of living in Galatia is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Galatia, the average commute to work is 32.42 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small village, Galatia does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Galatia with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.15% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Galatia in 2022 was $27,400, which is lower middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $109,600 for a family of four. However, Galatia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Galatia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Galatia residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Galatia include Irish, English, German, Polish, and Russian.
The most common language spoken in Galatia is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 5.3% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 32 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 0.6% have Czechoslovakian 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 Galatia are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.4% 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, 32.5% 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 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.8%), and 14.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.5%).
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 Galatia, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (17.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.3%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (4.4%), along with some Russian ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.8%) 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 (7.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.