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Mackinaw - Deer Creek, IL

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Overview


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.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Mackinaw - Deer Creek is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Mackinaw - Deer Creek 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, Mackinaw - Deer Creek’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

One downside of living in Mackinaw - Deer Creek, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.05 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small town, Mackinaw - Deer Creek does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Mackinaw - Deer Creek is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 33.81% of adults in Mackinaw - Deer Creek have a college degree.

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.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

People

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.

Diversity

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.

The Neighbors

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.

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, 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.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.5%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 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.

Getting to Work

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.


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