Lewistown is a very small city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 1,996 people and just one neighborhood, Lewistown is the 574th largest community in Illinois.
Unlike some cities, Lewistown isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Lewistown are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lewistown is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lewistown who work in maintenance occupations (11.83%), management occupations (8.80%), and office and administrative support (6.46%).
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Lewistown has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lewistown a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Lewistown, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.69 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
The percentage of people in Lewistown with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.27% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Lewistown in 2022 was $29,082, which is lower middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $116,328 for a family of four. However, Lewistown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Lewistown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lewistown residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Lewistown include English, German, Irish, French, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Lewistown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Polish.
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 Lewistown, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.3% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.4%) living in the neighborhood.
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 Lewistown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.8% 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, 27.3% 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 24.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.2%), and 13.1% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households. Some people also speak Chinese (2.1%).
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 Lewistown, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.7%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.1%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (3.0%), 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 (43.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (75.8%) 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 (16.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.