Darien is a medium-sized city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 22,966 people and four constituent neighborhoods, Darien is the 97th largest community in Illinois.

Darien is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 87.27% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Darien is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Darien who work in management occupations (15.75%), office and administrative support jobs (15.57%), and sales jobs (14.29%).

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

In addition, Darien is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Because of many things, Darien 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, Darien really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Darien 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 Darien is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Darien, the average commute to work is 32.08 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Darien Information and Demographics

The citizens of Darien are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 43.53% of adults in Darien have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Darien in 2000 was $34,795, which is wealthy relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $139,180 for a family of four. However, Darien contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Darien is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Darien home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Darien is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Darien include Polish, German, Italian, Irish, English, Czech, and Lithuanian.

In addition, Darien has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (15.18%).

The languages spoken by people in Darien are also diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in Darien is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish, Spanish, Tagalog, and Other Asian languages.