Ransom is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 305 people and just one neighborhood, Ransom is the 777th largest community in Illinois. Ransom has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Ransom is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Ransom is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Ransom who work in office and administrative support (12.79%), management occupations (8.72%), and sales jobs (7.56%).
Also of interest is that Ransom has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The overall crime rate in Ransom 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.
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!) Ransom 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. Ransom has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ransom than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ransom may be for you.
Ransom is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Ransom rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.08% of adults 25 and older in Ransom 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 Ransom in 2022 was $33,142, which is middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $132,568 for a family of four. However, Ransom contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Ransom is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Ransom home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ransom residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Ransom also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.03% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ransom include German, Irish, Slovak, English, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Ransom is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Ransom, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 37 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 9.2% have Norwegian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.8% of the neighborhoods in 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 Ransom are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.0% 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, 37.8% 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 26.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.8%), and 17.4% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Ransom, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (21.3%), and residents who report English roots (11.6%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (9.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (7.4%), 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 (39.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.8%) 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.