White Hall is a very small city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 2,201 people and just one neighborhood, White Hall is the 549th largest community in Illinois. White Hall has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, White Hall is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, White Hall is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in White Hall who work in sales jobs (12.53%), healthcare suport services (11.93%), and food service (7.88%).
Overall, White Hall’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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, White Hall has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes White Hall a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
The percentage of people in White Hall with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.33% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in White Hall in 2022 was $25,405, which is low income relative to Illinois, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,620 for a family of four. However, White Hall contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call White Hall home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of White Hall residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in White Hall include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in White Hall is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
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 White Hall are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.6% 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, 31.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 29.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.0%), and 17.5% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.7% of households.
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 White Hall, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.1%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (86.1%) 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 (10.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.