Ellis Grove is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 325 people and just one neighborhood, Ellis Grove is the 773rd largest community in Illinois.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Ellis Grove is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.50% of the Ellis Grove workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Ellis Grove is a village of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ellis Grove who work in sales jobs (19.85%), office and administrative support (14.71%), and maintenance occupations (6.62%).
The overall crime rate in Ellis Grove is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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!) Ellis Grove 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. Ellis Grove has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ellis Grove than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ellis Grove may be for you.
Being a small village, Ellis Grove does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Ellis Grove have a very low rate of college education: just 6.08% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Ellis Grove in 2022 was $28,357, which is lower middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $113,428 for a family of four. However, Ellis Grove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Ellis Grove home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ellis Grove residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Ellis Grove include German, Irish, English, French, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Ellis Grove is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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.
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 95.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 43.1% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 1.3% have Swiss ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.4% 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 Ellis Grove are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 61.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.2% 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, 35.0% 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 23.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (23.2%), and 17.1% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (2.5%).
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 Ellis Grove, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (43.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (16.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.3%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.5%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 (44.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.8%) 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 (5.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.