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Mound City - Karnak, IL

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Overview


Mound City - Karnak is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 2,533 people and just one neighborhood, Mound City - Karnak is the 511th largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

Mound City - Karnak is a blue-collar town, with 35.17% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Mound City - Karnak is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mound City - Karnak who work in office and administrative support (14.83%), sales jobs (9.65%), and healthcare suport services (8.51%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Mound City - Karnak has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mound City - Karnak a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Mound City - Karnak with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.33% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Mound City - Karnak in 2022 was $25,618, 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 $102,472 for a family of four. However, Mound City - Karnak contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Mound City - Karnak is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mound City - Karnak home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mound City - Karnak residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mound City - Karnak include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.

The most common language spoken in Mound City - Karnak is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

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.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 95.6% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Real Estate

Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 30.9%, which is higher than 95.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

In addition, 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 25 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.6% of America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Mound City - Karnak are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 34.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.9% 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, 31.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 23.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.9%), and 18.6% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Mound City - Karnak, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (11.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.5%), and residents who report English roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (1.4%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (1.2%), 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 (38.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (76.1%) 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 (17.6%) . 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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