Tonica - Lostant is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 3,562 people and just one neighborhood, Tonica - Lostant is the 426th largest community in Illinois. Much of the housing stock in Tonica - Lostant 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, Tonica - Lostant is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.01% of the Tonica - Lostant workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Tonica - Lostant is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Tonica - Lostant who work in management occupations (12.56%), office and administrative support (9.26%), and healthcare (6.34%).
Being a small town, Tonica - Lostant does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Tonica - Lostant rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.07% of adults 25 and older in Tonica - Lostant 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 Tonica - Lostant in 2022 was $39,152, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $156,608 for a family of four. However, Tonica - Lostant contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Tonica - Lostant home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tonica - Lostant residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Tonica - Lostant include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Tonica - Lostant is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 18 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 38.3% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Tonica - Lostant are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 20.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.0% 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, 36.5% 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 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.9%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households. Some people also speak Italian (7.4%).
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 Tonica - Lostant, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (38.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.0%), and residents who report English roots (10.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (10.2%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.9%), 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 (34.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.1%) 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 (10.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.