About Germantown Hills

Germantown Hills is a very small village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 2,132 people and just one neighborhood, Germantown Hills is the 480th largest community in Illinois.

Germantown Hills is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Germantown Hills is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Germantown Hills who work in management occupations (14.73%), office and administrative support jobs (14.36%), and sales jobs (10.22%).

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

In addition, Germantown Hills 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, Germantown Hills 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, Germantown Hills really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Germantown Hills 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.

Germantown Hills is very much a car-oriented village. This is because the population of Germantown Hills isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 99.04% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Germantown Hills is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Germantown Hills Information and Demographics

The citizens of Germantown Hills are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 42.02% of adults in Germantown Hills have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Germantown Hills in 2000 was $27,350, which is wealthy relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $109,400 for a family of four. However, Germantown Hills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Germantown Hills is English.