Thornwood Grove / The Reserve Of Elgin median real estate price is $400,368, which is more expensive than 70.9% of the neighborhoods in Illinois and 54.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Thornwood Grove / The Reserve Of Elgin is currently $5,169, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 99.3% of the neighborhoods in Illinois.
Thornwood Grove / The Reserve Of Elgin is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Elgin, Illinois.
Thornwood Grove / The Reserve Of Elgin 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 Thornwood Grove / The Reserve Of Elgin neighborhood are newer, built in 2000 or more recently. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
In Thornwood Grove / The Reserve Of Elgin, the current vacancy rate is 0.4%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 93.2% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Thornwood Grove / The Reserve Of Elgin is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the Thornwood Grove / The Reserve Of Elgin neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the Thornwood Grove / The Reserve Of Elgin community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
Many people dream of living along a street lined with row houses or other attached homes. Such places do often have an abundance of charm. If you are one of these people, the Thornwood Grove / The Reserve Of Elgin neighborhood could be your paradise. With 41.1% of the homes and real estate here classified as rowhouses or other attached homes, this neighborhood brims with opportunity to find the right place for you. Only 1.8% of U.S. neighborhoods have more row houses than this neighborhood, making it one of the most interesting things about this special neighborhood.
Did you know that the Thornwood Grove / The Reserve Of Elgin neighborhood has more Ukrainian and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Ukrainian ancestry and 14.7% have Polish ancestry.
Thornwood Grove / The Reserve Of Elgin is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Langs. of India at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.8% 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 Thornwood Grove / The Reserve Of Elgin neighborhood in Elgin are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 74.9% 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.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the Thornwood Grove / The Reserve Of Elgin neighborhood, 53.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 16.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (15.8%), and 13.8% 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 Thornwood Grove / The Reserve Of Elgin neighborhood is English, spoken by 84.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Langs. of India and Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the Thornwood Grove / The Reserve Of Elgin neighborhood in Elgin, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.2%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (18.3%), and residents who report Polish roots (14.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.8%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (7.8%), among others. In addition, 15.4% 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 Thornwood Grove / The Reserve Of Elgin neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (32.9% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (79.0%) 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 (6.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.