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South Chicago Heights, IL

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Overview


South Chicago Heights is a very small village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 3,871 people and just one neighborhood, South Chicago Heights is the 396th largest community in Illinois.

Occupations and Workforce

South Chicago Heights is a blue-collar town, with 41.75% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, South Chicago Heights is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in South Chicago Heights who work in office and administrative support (17.69%), food service (11.32%), and sales jobs (9.26%).

Of important note, South Chicago Heights is also a village of artists. South Chicago Heights has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape South Chicago Heights’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

For a small village, South Chicago Heights has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride taxis. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in South Chicago Heights exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in South Chicago Heights is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.23% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in South Chicago Heights in 2022 was $24,320, which is low income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $97,280 for a family of four. However, South Chicago Heights contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

South Chicago Heights is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call South Chicago Heights 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 South Chicago Heights, accounting for 37.78% of the village’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of South Chicago Heights residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in South Chicago Heights include Italian, Irish, German, Czech, and Polish.

South Chicago Heights also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 16.13%.

The most common language spoken in South Chicago Heights is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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 South Chicago Heights, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (28.5%) than in 98.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

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

Significantly, 6.9% 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 95.9% 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 South Chicago Heights are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.1% 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, 41.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.0%), and 10.3% in executive, management, and professional 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 66.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 South Chicago Heights, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (32.9%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (12.6%), and residents who report German roots (5.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.7%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (2.5%), among others. In addition, 16.1% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (64.1%) 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 (28.5%) . 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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