Lemont is a somewhat small village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 13,177 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Lemont is the 170th largest community in Illinois.

Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Lemont is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lemont is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lemont who work in management occupations (14.74%), office and administrative support jobs (13.76%), and sales jobs (12.22%).

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

Because of many things, Lemont 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, Lemont really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Lemont 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 Lemont, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.06 minutes every day commuting to work.

Lemont 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.

Lemont Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Lemont is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 31.96% of adults in Lemont have a college degree.

The per capita income in Lemont in 2000 was $28,354, which is wealthy relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $113,416 for a family of four. However, Lemont contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The languages spoken by people in Lemont 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 Lemont is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish, Spanish, and Other Indo-European languages.