Old Oak Estates / Chickasaw Hills median real estate price is $489,497, which is more expensive than 81.3% of the neighborhoods in Illinois and 64.9% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Old Oak Estates / Chickasaw Hills is currently $2,049, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 44.2% of Illinois neighborhoods.
Old Oak Estates / Chickasaw Hills is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Homer Glen, Illinois.
Old Oak Estates / Chickasaw Hills real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Old Oak Estates / Chickasaw Hills neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
Real estate vacancies in Old Oak Estates / Chickasaw Hills are 5.8%, which is lower than one will find in 60.9% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Old Oak Estates / Chickasaw Hills is above average for the U.S., and may signal some demand for either price increases or new construction of residential product for this neighborhood.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the Old Oak Estates / Chickasaw Hills neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.
In addition, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, Old Oak Estates / Chickasaw Hills is among the best neighborhoods for families in Illinois. In fact, this neighborhood is more family-friendly than 96.4% of neighborhoods in the entire state of Illinois. Its combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes gives this area the look and feel of a "Leave It to Beaver" episode. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a strong sense of community. In addition, the high number of college-educated parents influences the academic success of the local schools. Overall, you will find all of the amenities a family needs to thrive in the Old Oak Estates / Chickasaw Hills neighborhood.
Owner-occupied real estate dominates the Old Oak Estates / Chickasaw Hills neighborhood. In fact, according to NeighborhoodScout research, the percentage of residential real estate occupied by its owner is higher here than in 96.9% of neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the Old Oak Estates / Chickasaw Hills neighborhood has more Polish and Arab ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 37.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry and 13.4% have Arab ancestry.
Old Oak Estates / Chickasaw Hills is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 14.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Arabic at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Old Oak Estates / Chickasaw Hills neighborhood in Homer Glen are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 87.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% of America'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 Old Oak Estates / Chickasaw Hills neighborhood, 46.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 22.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.1%), and 9.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 Old Oak Estates / Chickasaw Hills neighborhood is English, spoken by 67.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Arabic, Polish, Spanish and Greek.
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 Old Oak Estates / Chickasaw Hills neighborhood in Homer Glen, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Polish (37.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (17.4%), and residents who report Arab roots (13.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (13.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (9.1%), among others. In addition, 20.3% 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 Old Oak Estates / Chickasaw Hills neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.2% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (79.4%) 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 (5.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.