Mackinaw - Deer Creek is a somewhat small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 5,842 people and just one neighborhood, Mackinaw - Deer Creek is the 306th largest community in Illinois.
Mackinaw - Deer Creek is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Mackinaw - Deer Creek is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Mackinaw - Deer Creek who work in office and administrative support (14.68%), teaching (8.86%), and management occupations (8.20%).
Also of interest is that Mackinaw - Deer Creek has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Because of many things, Mackinaw - Deer Creek is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Mackinaw - Deer Creek really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Mackinaw - Deer Creek perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
In Mackinaw - Deer Creek, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.05 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Mackinaw - Deer Creek doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The overall education level of Mackinaw - Deer Creek citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 33.81% of adults in Mackinaw - Deer Creek have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.
The per capita income in Mackinaw - Deer Creek in 2022 was $43,359, which is wealthy relative to Illinois, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $173,436 for a family of four. However, Mackinaw - Deer Creek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Mackinaw - Deer Creek home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mackinaw - Deer Creek residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mackinaw - Deer Creek include German, English, Irish, Polish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Mackinaw - Deer Creek is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 13.0% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Illinois. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 0.4% have Yugoslav 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 Mackinaw - Deer Creek are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 75.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.8% 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 62.2% 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, 41.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.1%), and 14.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (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 Mackinaw - Deer Creek, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.6%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (4.6%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.1%), 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 (43.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (81.0%) 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 (11.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.