Minonk - Benson is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 2,737 people and just one neighborhood, Minonk - Benson is the 503rd largest community in Illinois. Much of the housing stock in Minonk - Benson was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Minonk - Benson is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.14% of the Minonk - Benson workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Minonk - Benson is a town of service providers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Minonk - Benson who work in office and administrative support (10.81%), management occupations (8.59%), and healthcare (6.68%).
Also of interest is that Minonk - Benson has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Minonk - Benson is a small town, 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 Minonk - Benson are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.01% of adults in Minonk - Benson have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Minonk - Benson in 2022 was $33,134, which is middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $132,536 for a family of four. However, Minonk - Benson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Minonk - Benson home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Minonk - Benson residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Minonk - Benson include German, Irish, Polish, European, and English.
The most common language spoken in Minonk - Benson is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian 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 Minonk - Benson, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 95.0% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
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 38 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.2% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Polish and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry and 35.1% have German ancestry.
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 Minonk - Benson are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.4% 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 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.2%), and 15.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 98.8% 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 Minonk - Benson, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (35.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.1%), and residents who report Polish roots (10.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (80.5%) 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 (9.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.