Raymond - Farmersville is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 2,953 people and just one neighborhood, Raymond - Farmersville is the 478th largest community in Illinois.
Unlike some towns, Raymond - Farmersville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Raymond - Farmersville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Raymond - Farmersville is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Raymond - Farmersville who work in office and administrative support (14.43%), sales jobs (10.70%), and teaching (8.60%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.42% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Raymond - Farmersville is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Raymond - Farmersville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
Being a small town, Raymond - Farmersville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The overall education level of Raymond - Farmersville is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 27.48% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Raymond - Farmersville in 2022 was $33,158, which is middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $132,632 for a family of four. However, Raymond - Farmersville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Raymond - Farmersville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Raymond - Farmersville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Raymond - Farmersville include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Raymond - Farmersville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Slavic languages.
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.
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 17 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.3% of 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 Raymond - Farmersville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.6% 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 executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.4%), and 17.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% 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 Raymond - Farmersville, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.9%), and residents who report Italian roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.4%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (5.0%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (78.2%) 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 (8.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.