Creal Springs is a tiny city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 497 people and just one neighborhood, Creal Springs is the 748th largest community in Illinois.
Unlike some cities, Creal Springs isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Creal Springs are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Creal Springs is a city of construction workers and builders, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Creal Springs who work in business and financial occupations (14.94%), healthcare (14.29%), and management occupations (12.99%).
A relatively large number of people in Creal Springs telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 19.48% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
One downside of living in Creal Springs is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Creal Springs, the average commute to work is 36.53 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Creal Springs is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of Creal Springs has a very low overall level of education: only 9.57% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Creal Springs in 2022 was $25,640, 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 $102,560 for a family of four. However, Creal Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Creal Springs is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Creal Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Creal Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Creal Springs include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Creal Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.
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.
The government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed, is that the neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 12.8% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 95.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 40 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.9% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian and Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 0.3% 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 Creal Springs are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.1% 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 64.3% of America'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, 33.4% 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 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.0%), and 13.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Creal Springs, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (12.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.6%), and residents who report English roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.8%) 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 (6.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.