Posen is a somewhat small village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 5,334 people and just one neighborhood, Posen is the 318th largest community in Illinois.
When you are in Posen, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 49.53% of Posen’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Posen is a village of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Posen who work in office and administrative support (8.98%), maintenance occupations (7.64%), and food service (6.90%).
One downside of living in Posen, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.51 minutes every day commuting to work.
The percentage of adults in Posen with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.81% of adults in Posen have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Posen in 2022 was $23,161, which is low income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $92,644 for a family of four. However, Posen contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Posen is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Posen home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Posen, accounting for 69.64% of the village’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Posen residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Posen include Irish, Polish, German, Italian, and Nigerian.
Posen also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 26.37%.
The most common language spoken in Posen is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English 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 Posen, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 43.7% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.5% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 63.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Posen are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 5.7% 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 62.3% 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, 43.7% 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 20.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.3%), and 16.2% in executive, management, and professional 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 50.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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 Posen, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (63.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (4.1%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (4.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.5%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.2%), among others. In addition, 24.5% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.6%) 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 (9.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.