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Wilsonville, IL

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Overview


Wilsonville is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 530 people and just one neighborhood, Wilsonville is the 740th largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Wilsonville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 54.81% of Wilsonville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Wilsonville is a village of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Wilsonville who work in healthcare suport services (13.81%), maintenance occupations (8.79%), and sales jobs (5.44%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the village is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Wilsonville is worth considering.

One downside of living in Wilsonville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 38.57 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small village, Wilsonville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of Wilsonville has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.48% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Wilsonville in 2022 was $28,821, which is lower middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $115,284 for a family of four. However, Wilsonville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Wilsonville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wilsonville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Wilsonville include German, Irish, Italian, Polish, and English.

The most common language spoken in Wilsonville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 37 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 35.9% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.4% 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 98.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Wilsonville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.0% 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 64.6% of America's neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 33.6% 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 32.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.2%), and 15.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

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 98.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Wilsonville, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (35.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.2%), and residents who report Italian roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (27.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (85.2%) 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 (7.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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