Bunker Hill is a very small city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 1,596 people and just one neighborhood, Bunker Hill is the 616th largest community in Illinois.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Bunker Hill is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.18% of the Bunker Hill workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Bunker Hill is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bunker Hill who work in office and administrative support (9.95%), management occupations (7.09%), and sales jobs (6.03%).
Of important note, Bunker Hill is also a city of artists. Bunker Hill has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Bunker Hill’s character.
One downside of living in Bunker Hill is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Bunker Hill, the average commute to work is 34.74 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Bunker Hill rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.71% of adults 25 and older in Bunker Hill have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Bunker Hill in 2022 was $31,853, which is middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $127,412 for a family of four. However, Bunker Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Bunker Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bunker Hill residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bunker Hill include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Bunker Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian 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 Bunker Hill, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 90.2% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.7% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish 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 Bunker Hill are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.0% 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 67.9% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 36.0% 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 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.5%), and 13.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.3%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Bunker Hill, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.1%), and residents who report English roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (5.3%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 (29.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (90.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.