Oak Lawn is a larger medium-sized village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 55,391 people and 13 constituent neighborhoods, Oak Lawn is the 24th largest community in Illinois.

Oak Lawn is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Oak Lawn is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oak Lawn who work in office and administrative support jobs (19.59%), sales jobs (11.63%), and management occupations (7.80%).

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

In addition, Oak Lawn is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are people who are both educated and wealthy, and thus tend to be older, richer, and more established than young professionals. "Urban sophisticates" is not just about being educated and well-off financially: it is a point of view and state of mind, one that you might call 'urbaneness.' But such people can and do regularly live in small towns, suburbs and rural areas, as well as in big cities. They read, support the arts and high-end shops, and love travel.

One downside of living in Oak Lawn is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Oak Lawn, the average commute to work is 30.85 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Oak Lawn is a decent-sized village, yet no one gets to work using public transit, because the village has no real transit system.

Oak Lawn Information and Demographics

The overall education level of Oak Lawn is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 14.96%: 20.94% of adults 25 and older in the village have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Oak Lawn in 2000 was $23,877, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $95,508 for a family of four.

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

The languages spoken by people in Oak Lawn 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 Oak Lawn is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish, Spanish, and Arabic.