W Dundee Rd / N Wilke Rd median real estate prices are $228,913, which is more expensive than 72.8% of the neighborhoods in Illinois and 68.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

Average rental prices in W Dundee Rd / N Wilke Rd are currently $886, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 77.2% of the neighborhoods in Illinois.

W Dundee Rd / N Wilke Rd is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Buffalo Grove, Illinois.

W Dundee Rd / N Wilke Rd real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) apartment complexes/high-rise apartments and single-family homes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the W Dundee Rd / N Wilke Rd neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.

In W Dundee Rd / N Wilke Rd, the current vacancy rate is 2.9%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 87.5% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in W Dundee Rd / N Wilke Rd is very tight compared to the demand for property here.

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 Buffalo Grove, the W Dundee Rd / N Wilke Rd neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the W Dundee Rd / N Wilke Rd neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.1% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.

In addition, with a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the W Dundee Rd / N Wilke Rd neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 86% of the neighborhoods in IL. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.

Did you know that the W Dundee Rd / N Wilke Rd neighborhood has more Russian and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Russian ancestry and 1.5% have Belgian ancestry.

W Dundee Rd / N Wilke Rd is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the W Dundee Rd / N Wilke Rd neighborhood stands out by having 94.0% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.7% of all American neighborhoods.

The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. What is interesting to note, is that the W Dundee Rd / N Wilke Rd neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (45.1%) than are found in 96.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

In addition, most neighborhoods are composed of a mixture of ages of homes, but the W Dundee Rd / N Wilke Rd stands out as rather unique in having nearly all of its residential real estate built in one time period, namely between 1970 and 1999, generally considered to be established, but not old housing. What you'll sense when you look around or drive the streets of this neighborhood is that many of the residences look the same because of this similarity of age. In fact, 88.4% of the residential real estate here was built in this one time period.

Furthermore, 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 W Dundee Rd / N Wilke Rd neighborhood could be your paradise. With 23.6% 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 4.9% of U.S. neighborhoods have more row houses than this neighborhood, making it one of the most interesting things about this special neighborhood.

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the W Dundee Rd / N Wilke Rd neighborhood in Buffalo Grove are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 69.5% 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 99.9% 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 W Dundee Rd / N Wilke Rd neighborhood, 49.0% 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 21.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.0%), and 14.0% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

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 W Dundee Rd / N Wilke Rd neighborhood in Buffalo Grove, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (14.8%). There are also a number of people of Russian ancestry (9.2%) , and residents who report Polish roots (9.1%) , and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (7.6%) , along with some English ancestry residents (5.4%), among others. In addition, 45.1% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 W Dundee Rd / N Wilke Rd neighborhood is English, spoken by 42.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Polish, Russian and Korean.

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 W Dundee Rd / N Wilke Rd neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (94.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.