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Oakwood - Fithian, IL

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Overview


Oakwood - Fithian is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 3,133 people and just one neighborhood, Oakwood - Fithian is the 455th largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

Oakwood - Fithian is a blue-collar town, with 37.92% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Oakwood - Fithian is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oakwood - Fithian who work in office and administrative support (11.08%), sales jobs (8.62%), and management occupations (8.10%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 14.99% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small town, Oakwood - Fithian does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Oakwood - Fithian rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.74% of adults 25 and older in Oakwood - Fithian have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Oakwood - Fithian in 2022 was $33,957, which is middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $135,828 for a family of four. However, Oakwood - Fithian contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Oakwood - Fithian home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Oakwood - Fithian residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Oakwood - Fithian include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Oakwood - Fithian is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

The Neighbors

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 Oakwood - Fithian are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.6% 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, 36.6% 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 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.0%), and 13.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Oakwood - Fithian, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.2%), and residents who report English roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.0%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (47.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (78.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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