Augusta - Plymouth is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 3,362 people and just one neighborhood, Augusta - Plymouth is the 440th largest community in Illinois. Much of the housing stock in Augusta - Plymouth was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Augusta - Plymouth is a blue-collar town, with 36.29% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Augusta - Plymouth is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Augusta - Plymouth who work in office and administrative support (14.29%), sales jobs (10.69%), and management occupations (10.08%).
The overall crime rate in Augusta - Plymouth 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.
As is often the case in a small town, Augusta - Plymouth doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Augusta - Plymouth who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.97% of the adults in Augusta - Plymouth have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Augusta - Plymouth in 2022 was $29,516, which is lower middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $118,064 for a family of four. However, Augusta - Plymouth contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Augusta - Plymouth home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Augusta - Plymouth residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Augusta - Plymouth include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Augusta - Plymouth is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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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 12 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.7% 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 Augusta - Plymouth are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.7% 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, 35.4% 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 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.1%), and 16.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% 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 Augusta - Plymouth, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (17.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (1.6%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (28.6% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (83.4%) 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 (9.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.