Meredosia - Chapin is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 2,343 people and just one neighborhood, Meredosia - Chapin is the 537th largest community in Illinois.
Meredosia - Chapin is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Meredosia - Chapin is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Meredosia - Chapin who work in office and administrative support (14.60%), management occupations (8.62%), and sales jobs (7.81%).
The overall crime rate in Meredosia - Chapin is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
Being a small town, Meredosia - Chapin does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Meredosia - Chapin with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.69% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Meredosia - Chapin in 2022 was $32,760, which is middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $131,040 for a family of four. However, Meredosia - Chapin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Meredosia - Chapin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Meredosia - Chapin residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Meredosia - Chapin include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Meredosia - Chapin is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
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 23 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.2% 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 Meredosia - Chapin are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.2% 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, 33.9% 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 24.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.9%), and 18.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.6%).
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 Meredosia - Chapin, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.0%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.6%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.0%) 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 (6.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.