New Burnside is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 153 people and just one neighborhood, New Burnside is the 795th largest community in Illinois.
Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, New Burnside is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, New Burnside is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in New Burnside who work in sales jobs (20.59%), teaching (17.65%), and management occupations (14.71%).
A relatively large number of people in New Burnside telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.76% 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.
New Burnside is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The village’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, New Burnside’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
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!) New Burnside 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. New Burnside has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in New Burnside than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, New Burnside may be for you.
One downside of living in New Burnside is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In New Burnside, the average commute to work is 42.92 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small village, New Burnside doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of New Burnside citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.02% of adults in New Burnside have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in New Burnside in 2022 was $23,738, which is low income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $94,952 for a family of four. However, New Burnside contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
New Burnside is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call New Burnside home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Burnside residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in New Burnside include English, Irish, Polish, Scottish, and German.
The most common language spoken in New Burnside is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
Owner-occupied real estate dominates the neighborhood. In fact, according to NeighborhoodScout research, the percentage of residential real estate occupied by its owner is higher here than in 96.8% of neighborhoods in America. Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 33.1%, which is higher than 96.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 29 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 New Burnside are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.5% 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 73.0% of America'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, 37.0% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.1%), and 12.0% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% 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 New Burnside, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (13.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.9%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (2.9%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (87.7%) 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 (8.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.