Dongola is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 639 people and just one neighborhood, Dongola is the 723rd largest community in Illinois.
Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Dongola is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Dongola is a village of service providers, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dongola who work in sales jobs (15.34%), business and financial occupations (10.23%), and management occupations (7.95%).
It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Dongola has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Dongola has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Dongola than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Dongola may be for you.
One downside of living in Dongola, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.46 minutes every day commuting to work.
Dongola is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In Dongola, just 9.26% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Dongola in 2022 was $27,585, 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 $110,340 for a family of four. However, Dongola contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Dongola is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Dongola home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dongola residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Dongola include German, English, French, Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Dongola is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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 Dongola, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 23 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.0% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian 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 Dongola are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.7% 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, 34.9% 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 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.4%), and 9.7% 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 (2.3%).
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 Dongola, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report English roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.9%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 (29.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (87.9%) 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 (5.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.