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Buffalo Grove, IL real estate and demographic information

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NAME
1 Horatio Gardens
2 Bernard Dr / Buffalo G...
3 Dundee Rd / Arlington ...

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Buffalo Grove zip codes60089, 60004, 60069

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REAL ESTATE IN POPULAR Buffalo Grove NEIGHBORHOODS Horatio Gardens, Bernard Dr / Buffalo Grove Rd, Dundee Rd / Arlington Heights Rd

POPULAR REAL ESTATE NEAR Buffalo Grove, IL Barrington, Deerfield, Glencoe, Glenview, Highland Park, Lake Bluff, Lake Forest, Lincolnshire, Northbrook, Winnetka

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POPULATION
41,734

Buffalo Grove, IL Information

BUFFALO GROVE INFORMATION DETAILS
POPULATION 41,734
NUMBER OF HOMES AND APARTMENTS 12,344
BUFFALO GROVE HOME OWNERSHIP
% OWNER OCCUPIED 87.86%
% RENTER OCCUPIED 10.60%
% VACANT 1.54%
TYPE OF BUFFALO GROVE HOMES
SINGLE FAMILY DETACHED 56.10%
ROWHOUSES AND ATTACHED HOMES 19.47%
SMALL APARTMENT BUILDINGS 7.18%
COMPLEXES OR HIGH RISE APARTMENTS 17.20%
MOBILE HOMES 0.06%
OTHER 0.00%
SIZE OF BUFFALO GROVE HOMES
NO BEDROOM 0.70%
1 BEDROOM 7.28%
2 BEDROOMS 27.69%
3 BEDROOMS 29.99%
4 BEDROOMS 29.37%
5 OR MORE BEDROOMS 4.97%
AGE OF HOMES
NEWER HOMES (1995 OR LATER) 6.29%
ESTABLISHED, BUT NOT OLD HOMES (1970-1994) 77.32%
WELL-ESTABLISHED, OLD HOMES (1940-1969) 16.06%
HISTORIC (1939 OR BEFORE) 0.33%


BUFFALO GROVE REAL ESTATE INFORMATION DETAILS
MEDIAN HOME VALUE $416,073
MEDIAN RENTAL PRICE $1,581
HOME VALUE RANGE
$0-$91,000 0.23%
$91,001-$184,000 4.61%
$184,001-$368,000 41.33%
$368,001-$551,000 30.80%
$551,001-$736,000 13.87%
$736,001-$920,000 5.15%
$920,001-$1,380,000 3.13%
$1,380,001-$1,840,000 0.65%
> $1,840,000 0.23%


PEOPLE OF Buffalo Grove DETAILS
POPULATION DISTRIBUTION
UNDER 5 YEARS 6.46%
5 TO 17 21.96%
18 TO 24 5.56%
25 TO 34 10.75%
35 TO 54 38.10%
55 TO 64 7.88%
65 YEARS AND OVER 9.28%
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT OF ADULTS
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES 95.02%
COLLEGE GRADUATES 55.08%
MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME $81,324
PER CAPITA INCOME $36,688
INDIVIDUALS BELOW POVERTY LEVEL 2.23%
INDUSTRIES PEOPLE WORK IN Manufacturing (16.16%), Retail (13.19%), Professional, scientific, and technical services (11.95%), Education (9.60%), Healthcare (9.02%), Finance (9.00%), Wholesale (6.63%), Other (4.01%), Construction (3.57%), Information Technology (3.13%), Accomodation (2.87%), Administration (2.57%), Transportation (2.12%), Public Service (2.06%), Real Estate (2.01%)
ATTENDING COLLEGE 5.18%
RACIAL MAKEUP
WHITE 88.07%
BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN 0.58%
AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE 0.13%
ASIAN 8.48%
NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDER 0.00%
SOME OTHER RACE ALONE 1.28%
TWO OR MORE RACES 1.46%
HISPANIC OR LATINO (OF ANY RACE) 3.85%
ETHNICITIES PRESENT Other Groups (17.87%), Unclassified (13.29%), Russian (12.96%), German (10.75%), Polish (9.02%), Irish (6.01%), United States or American (5.64%), Italian (4.35%), English (2.74%), Ukrainian (2.22%)
FOREIGN BORN 20.42%
LANGUAGES SPOKEN English (70.47%) , Russian (7.95%) , Spanish (3.74%) , Korean (2.21%)
About Buffalo Grove

Buffalo Grove is a medium-sized town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 41,734 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Buffalo Grove is the 37th largest community in Illinois.

Buffalo Grove is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 90.14% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Buffalo Grove is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Buffalo Grove who work in management occupations (15.64%), sales jobs (15.44%), and office and administrative support jobs (13.95%).

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

Buffalo Grove, while not large, also appears to be attractive to some younger, educated professionals, who help shape the character of the town.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Buffalo Grove is also home to many people who can 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, Buffalo Grove is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Buffalo Grove really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Buffalo Grove perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

One downside of living in Buffalo Grove is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Buffalo Grove, the average commute to work is 30.43 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Buffalo Grove Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Buffalo Grove is a pretty powerful place. 55.08% of the adults in Buffalo Grove 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 Buffalo Grove in 2000 was $36,688, which is wealthy relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $146,752 for a family of four. However, Buffalo Grove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

In addition, Buffalo Grove has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (20.42%).

The languages spoken by people in Buffalo Grove 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 Buffalo Grove is English. Other important languages spoken here include Russian, Spanish, and Korean.

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