Prospect Heights is a somewhat small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 16,347 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Prospect Heights is the 139th largest community in Illinois.

Unlike some towns, Prospect Heights isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Prospect Heights are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Prospect Heights is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Prospect Heights who work in office and administrative support jobs (13.82%), management occupations (9.42%), and sales jobs (9.02%).

Also of interest is that Prospect Heights has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

In addition, Prospect Heights is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Prospect Heights Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Prospect Heights is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 28.37% of adults in Prospect Heights have a college degree.

The per capita income in Prospect Heights in 2000 was $27,917, which is wealthy relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $111,668 for a family of four. However, Prospect Heights contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Prospect Heights is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Prospect Heights home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Prospect Heights is White, followed by Asian. Prospect Heights also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 29.36% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in Prospect Heights include Polish, German, Irish, Italian, and English.

In addition, Prospect Heights has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (38.18%).

The most common language spoken in Prospect Heights is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.