Beecher is a very small village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 4,674 people and just one neighborhood, Beecher is the 356th largest community in Illinois. Much of the housing stock in Beecher was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Beecher economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Beecher, where the median household income is $98,153.00.
Beecher is a blue-collar town, with 38.39% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Beecher is a village of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Beecher who work in office and administrative support (12.18%), management occupations (11.93%), and business and financial occupations (8.68%).
Also of interest is that Beecher has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The percentage of adults in Beecher who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.74% of the adults in Beecher have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Beecher in 2022 was $53,587, which is wealthy relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $214,348 for a family of four.
Beecher is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Beecher home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Beecher residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Beecher also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.19% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Beecher include German, Polish, Italian, Irish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Beecher is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 11.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 18.3% have Polish ancestry.
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 Beecher are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 75.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% 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, 37.3% 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 33.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.6%), and 11.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 88.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.9%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Beecher, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.0%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (18.3%), and residents who report Italian roots (15.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (13.3%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (11.5%), 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 (30.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (77.1%) 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 (14.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.