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Grant Park, IL

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Overview


Grant Park is a very small village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 1,274 people and just one neighborhood, Grant Park is the 650th largest community in Illinois.

Grant Park real estate is some of the most expensive in Illinois, although Grant Park house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Grant Park, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.10% of Grant Park’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Grant Park is a village of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Grant Park who work in office and administrative support (12.75%), sales jobs (10.62%), and food service (5.72%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Grant Park’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

One downside of living in Grant Park, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.75 minutes every day commuting to work.

Grant Park is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

In Grant Park, just 10.90% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Grant Park in 2022 was $26,032, 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 $104,128 for a family of four. However, Grant Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Grant Park home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Grant Park residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Grant Park include German, Polish, English, Irish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Grant Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Grant Park, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

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 41.7% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.1% of American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 1.0% have Croatian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Grant Park are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 41.7% 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 24.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.6%), and 10.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 95.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

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 Grant Park, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.8%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (7.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (6.5%), 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 (30.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (86.0%) 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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