Anna is a very small city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 4,161 people and just one neighborhood, Anna is the 381st largest community in Illinois.
Unlike some cities, Anna isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Anna are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Anna is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Anna who work in office and administrative support (15.72%), maintenance occupations (12.67%), and food service (10.69%).
Anna is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Anna are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.44% of adults in Anna having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Anna in 2022 was $24,592, which is low income relative to Illinois, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,368 for a family of four. However, Anna contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Anna also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 33.68% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Anna home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Anna residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Anna include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Anna is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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 Anna, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 Anna are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 91.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 44.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.5% 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, 35.5% 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 manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 22.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.1%), and 19.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.2%).
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 Anna, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 (54.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.1%) 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 (15.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.