Vernon Hills is a medium-sized village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 20,606 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Vernon Hills is the 114th largest community in Illinois.

Vernon Hills is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 89.06% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Vernon Hills is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Vernon Hills who work in office and administrative support jobs (15.33%), management occupations (15.28%), and sales jobs (14.36%).

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

Vernon Hills, while not large, also appears to be attractive to some younger, educated professionals, who help shape the character of the village.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Vernon Hills is also home to many people who can 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.

Vernon Hills Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Vernon Hills is a pretty powerful place. 54.29% of the adults in Vernon Hills have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Vernon Hills in 2000 was $32,246, which is wealthy relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $128,984 for a family of four. However, Vernon Hills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

Vernon Hills also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 21.18%.

The languages spoken by people in Vernon Hills 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 Vernon Hills is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and Korean.