Vienna is a very small city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 1,354 people and just one neighborhood, Vienna is the 645th largest community in Illinois.
Unlike some cities, Vienna isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Vienna are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Vienna is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Vienna who work in office and administrative support (17.20%), law enforcement and fire fighting (9.78%), and food service (9.16%).
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Vienna has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Vienna a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
The percentage of adults in Vienna with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.85% of adults in Vienna have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Vienna in 2022 was $22,301, which is low income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $89,204 for a family of four. However, Vienna contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Vienna also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.19% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Vienna is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Vienna home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Vienna residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Vienna include German, Irish, English, European, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Vienna 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.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 98.1% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 29 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Vienna are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.1% 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, 27.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (26.3%), and 19.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% 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 Vienna, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (11.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.2%), and residents who report English roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.4%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 (37.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (79.7%) 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 (11.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.