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Sheridan, IL

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Overview


Sheridan is a very small village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 2,411 people and just one neighborhood, Sheridan is the 533rd largest community in Illinois. Sheridan has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Sheridan, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 43.63% of Sheridan’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Sheridan is a village of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Sheridan who work in food service (10.12%), management occupations (7.85%), and office and administrative support (7.16%).

A relatively large number of people in Sheridan telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.99% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Sheridan, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 37.58 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

The population of Sheridan has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 3.65% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Sheridan in 2022 was $14,349, which is low income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $57,396 for a family of four. However, Sheridan contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Sheridan is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Sheridan home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sheridan residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Sheridan also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.84% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Sheridan include German, Irish, Italian, Polish, and English.

The most common language spoken in Sheridan is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.2% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 91.7% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.0% of all American neighborhoods.

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 Sheridan are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 64.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.3% of U.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, 41.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.4%), and 12.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.2%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Sheridan, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.7%), and residents who report English roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.1%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (5.2%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (91.7%) 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.


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