Overview
Westfield is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 522 people and just one neighborhood, Westfield is the 740th largest community in Illinois.
Occupations and Workforce
Westfield is a blue-collar town, with 42.05% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Westfield is a village of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Westfield who work in sales jobs (11.36%), office and administrative support (10.23%), and management occupations (6.82%).
Setting & Lifestyle
The village 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, Westfield has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Westfield a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Demographics
The citizens of Westfield are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.53% of adults in Westfield have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Westfield in 2022 was $31,271, which is lower middle income relative to Illinois, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $125,084 for a family of four. However, Westfield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Westfield home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Westfield residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Westfield include German, English, Irish, Italian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Westfield 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 蘑菇视频's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Occupations
蘑菇视频'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 49.5% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.8% of American neighborhoods.
Real Estate
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 11 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to 蘑菇视频's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
In addition, real estate in the neighborhood is almost exclusively owner-occupied. 蘑菇视频's analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher rate of owner-occupied housing than is found in 95.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. If you are seeking to rent, this neighborhood may not have many options, but high rates of ownership often indicate stability in a neighborhood.
Diversity
Significantly, 2.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
Migration / Stability
Do you like to be surrounded by people from all over the country or world, with different perspectives and life experiences? Or do you instead prefer to be in a neighborhood where most residents have lived there for a long time, creating a sense of cohesiveness? 蘑菇视频's analysis reveals that this neighborhood stands out among American neighborhoods for the uniqueness of the mobility of its residents. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 96.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
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. 蘑菇视频's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Westfield are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. 蘑菇视频's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 21.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.4% 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, 49.5% 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 24.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (12.4%), and 11.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (2.1%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture 鈥� our learned behavior 鈥� 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 Westfield, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (16.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.2%), among others.
Getting to Work
How you get to work 鈥� car, bus, train or other means 鈥� 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.6% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (86.5%) 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 (7.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
