Lockport is a somewhat small city located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 14,803 people and six constituent neighborhoods, Lockport is the 157th largest community in Illinois.

Lockport is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Lockport is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Lockport who work in office and administrative support jobs (15.87%), sales jobs (12.96%), and management occupations (8.55%).

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

Because of many things, Lockport 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, Lockport really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Lockport 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 Lockport is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Lockport, the average commute to work is 33.12 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small city, Lockport does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Lockport Information and Demographics

The overall education level of Lockport is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 14.96%: 22.59% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Lockport in 2000 was $24,939, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $99,756 for a family of four. However, Lockport contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Lockport is English. Some people also speak Spanish.