Wilmette is a medium-sized village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 27,684 people and six constituent neighborhoods, Wilmette is the 76th largest community in Illinois.

Wilmette is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 95.97% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Wilmette is a village of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wilmette who work in management occupations (19.86%), sales jobs (15.01%), and office and administrative support jobs (9.61%).

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

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

In addition, Wilmette 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.

Because of many things, Wilmette is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Wilmette a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The village's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Wilmette has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Wilmette's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

In Wilmette, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.35 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Being a small village, Wilmette does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Wilmette Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Wilmette is a pretty powerful place. 72.58% of the adults in Wilmette have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Wilmette in 2000 was $55,611, which is wealthy relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $222,444 for a family of four. However, Wilmette contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Wilmette home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Wilmette is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Wilmette include Irish, German, English, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Wilmette is English. Other important languages spoken here include Korean and Spanish.