Found within zip codes: 60061
Popular real estate near Vernon Hills, IL (S Milwaukee Ave / Greggs Pky)
S Milwaukee Ave / Greggs Pky median real estate prices are $427,295, which is more expensive than 95.6% of the neighborhoods in Illinois and 90.1% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
Average rental prices in S Milwaukee Ave / Greggs Pky are currently $1,807, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 99.4% of the neighborhoods in Illinois.
S Milwaukee Ave / Greggs Pky is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Vernon Hills, Illinois.
S Milwaukee Ave / Greggs Pky real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the S Milwaukee Ave / Greggs Pky neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.
In S Milwaukee Ave / Greggs Pky, the current vacancy rate is 2.0%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 96.8% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in S Milwaukee Ave / Greggs Pky is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood CharacteristicsThe way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Notable & Unique: PeopleA majority of the adults in the S Milwaukee Ave / Greggs Pky neighborhood are wealthy and educated executives. They own stately homes that tend to maintain high real estate appreciation rates. Their upper-level careers keep them busy, but allow them to live comfortably. If you're an executive and want to keep similar company, consider settling in this neighborhood, rated as an executive lifestyle "best choice" neighborhood for Illinois by NeighborhoodScout's analysis, which rated it as better for executive lifestyles than 99.8% of the neighborhoods in Illinois. In addition to being an excellent choice for highly educated executives, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for families with school-aged children and urban sophisticates.
In addition, if you come to know the people here, you will recognize that you're in the company of one of the wealthiest communities in the nation. In fact, a mere 1.1% of America's neighborhoods are wealthier than the S Milwaukee Ave / Greggs Pky neighborhood. Real estate here is exceedingly well-maintained, and similarly, tends to maintain its value over time. The cars driven are mostly luxury brands like Mercedes, Audi, BMW, and Lexus. If the public schools aren't up to snuff, the residents of this neighborhood preferentially send their children to private preparatory schools. Vacation to Disney? Yes, but equally popular are summers in Europe.
Also, priests and therapists would like to think they know the secrets to a truly successful marriage, but according to NeighborhoodScout's research, the folks of the S Milwaukee Ave / Greggs Pky neighborhood may actually hold the key. 72.5% of its residents are married, which is a higher percentage than is found in 98.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
Finally, do you like to read, write, and learn? Are you curious about the world? If so, this neighborhood may be a good fit for you. NeighborhoodScout's research revealed that a full 66.6% of the adults living in the S Milwaukee Ave / Greggs Pky neighborhood have earned at least a bachelor's degree. This is a higher rate than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In this way, this neighborhood truly stands out.
Notable & Unique: OccupationsExecutives, managers and professionals make up 61.0% of the workforce in the S Milwaukee Ave / Greggs Pky neighborhood which, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, is a higher proportion of such high-level people than is found in 98.2% of the neighborhoods in America. For this reason, this neighborhood really stands out as unique.
Notable & Unique: DiversityDid you know that the S Milwaukee Ave / Greggs Pky neighborhood has more Belgian and Greek ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 2.3% have Greek ancestry.
S Milwaukee Ave / Greggs Pky is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Korean at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
Notable & Unique: Real EstateIn addition, one way that the S Milwaukee Ave / Greggs Pky neighborhood really stands out, is that it has more large 4, 5, or additional bedroom homes and real estate than 98.6% of the neighborhoods in America. When you walk or drive around this neighborhood, you'll instantly notice the size of the homes here which definitely makes a strong visual statement.
Furthermore, owner-occupied real estate dominates the S Milwaukee Ave / Greggs Pky neighborhood. In fact, according to NeighborhoodScout research, the percentage of residential real estate occupied by its owner is higher here than in 98.1% of neighborhoods in America. With a real estate vacancy rate of only 2.0%, the S Milwaukee Ave / Greggs Pky neighborhood has a lower vacancy rate than 96.8% of U.S. neighborhoods, a very elite group. Such a low vacancy rate may indicate very strong real estate demand in the neighborhood combined with some impediments to increasing supply, such as zoning or existing density of development, among other potential reasons.
Also of note, if you like the look and ambience of new homes and newly built neighborhoods, you will love the S Milwaukee Ave / Greggs Pky neighborhood. A whopping 43.6% of the homes and other residential real estate here were built after 1999, which is a higher proportion of new homes then you will find in 95.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Everything here just feels new.
The Neighbors The Neighbors: IncomeThere are two complimentary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the S Milwaukee Ave / Greggs Pky neighborhood in Vernon Hills are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 98.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 81.4% of America's neighborhoods.
The Neighbors: OccupationsA neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the shear diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations. In the S Milwaukee Ave / Greggs Pky neighborhood, 61.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 22.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (11.5%), and 4.8% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The Neighbors: Ethnicity / AncestryBoston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today. In the S Milwaukee Ave / Greggs Pky neighborhood in Vernon Hills, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (23.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.2%) , and residents who report Italian roots (10.3%) , and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.1%) , along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.4%), among others. In addition, 19.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
The Neighbors: LanguagesThe languages spoken by people in this neighborhood 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 the S Milwaukee Ave / Greggs Pky neighborhood is English, spoken by 73.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Korean, Chinese, Russian and South Asian languages.
Getting to WorkHow you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in S Milwaukee Ave / Greggs Pky neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (5.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
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| RENTAL PRICE | Very high cost relative to IL, very high cost relative to the nation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NEIGHBORHOOD LOOK, FEEL, & CHARACTER | DETAILS |
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| THE SETTING | Urban (based on population density) |
| TYPE OF HOMES / DWELLINGS | Mostly Single-family homes and a few Rowhouses & attached homes |
| SIZE OF HOMES / DWELLINGS | Mostly Medium-sized dwellings (3 or 4 bedrooms) and a few Large dwellings (4 or 5 bedrooms) |
| AGE OF HOMES / DWELLINGS | Mostly Established but not old (Built 1970 – 1999) and some Newer Homes (Built 2000 or later) |
| HOMEOWNERSHIP | Mostly Owner occupied |
| SPECIAL CHARACTER | Mostly Urban Sophisticates and Quiet |
| THE NEIGHBORS | DETAILS |
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| AGE & LIFESTYLE | Mostly Families with children (family households with school-aged children), some Young singles-upwardly mobile (young, educated, professionally employed, and single), some Seniors (people 65 and over) and some Mixed ages |
| EDUCATION LEVEL | Rating: 10 (5 is average for the U.S., 10 is most educated) |
| INCOME | Wealthy (among the 15% most wealthy communities in America) |
| OCCUPATIONS | Mostly Executive, managerial & professional, some Sales & Service workers, some Clerical, assistants & technical support, some Government employees and some Manufacturing & Laborers |
| ETHNICITY / ANCESTRY | Mostly White (non-Hispanic), some East Asian, some Italian ancestry, some Irish ancestry, some Hispanic, some Asian Indian, some Black and some Mexican |
| LANGUAGES | Mostly English speaking, some Russian speaking and some Spanish speaking |
| SCHOOLS IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD | GRADES |
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| ETHNIC/RACIAL GROUPS | THIS DISTRICT | THIS STATE |
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| WHITE (NON-HISPANIC) (%) | 52.4 | 51.3 |
| BLACK (%) | 1.7 | 18.4 |
| HISPANIC (%) | 26.1 | 22.9 |
| ASIAN OR PACIFIC ISLANDER (%) | 17.3 | 4.1 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN OR NATIVE OF ALASKA (%) | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| ECONOMIC GROUPS | THIS DISTRICT | THIS STATE |
| ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED (%) | 22.5 | 44.1 |
| FOR THIS DISTRICT | PER STUDENT | TOTAL | % OF TOTAL |
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| INSTRUCTIONAL EXPENDITURES | $6,075 | $23,747,000 | 48.7 |
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| STUDENT | $690 | $2,699,000 | 5.5 |
| STAFF | $419 | $1,637,000 | 3.4 |
| GENERAL ADMINISTRATION | $301 | $1,176,000 | 2.4 |
| SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION | $504 | $1,972,000 | 4.0 |
| OPERATION | $986 | $3,854,000 | 7.9 |
| TRANSPORTATION | $634 | $2,479,000 | 5.1 |
| OTHER | $544 | $2,125,000 | 4.4 |
| TOTAL SUPPORT | $4,078 | $15,942,000 | 32.7 |
| NON-INSTRUCTIONAL EXPENDITURES | $2,316 | $9,054,000 | 18.6 |
| TOTAL EXPENDITURES | $12,469 | $48,743,000 | 100.0 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT | |
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| ADULTS IN NEIGHBORHOOD WITH COLLEGE DEGREE OR HIGHER (%) | 66.6 |
| CHILDREN IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD LIVING IN POVERTY (%) | 2.3 |
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| WHITE (NON-HISPANIC) (%) | 76.4 | 51.3 |
| BLACK (%) | 1.7 | 18.4 |
| HISPANIC (%) | 8.4 | 22.9 |
| ASIAN OR PACIFIC ISLANDER (%) | 10.0 | 4.1 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN OR NATIVE OF ALASKA (%) | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| ECONOMIC GROUPS | THIS DISTRICT | THIS STATE |
| ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED (%) | 44.1 |
| FOR THIS DISTRICT | PER STUDENT | TOTAL | % OF TOTAL |
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| INSTRUCTIONAL EXPENDITURES | $10,741 | $36,392,000 | 51.5 |
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| STUDENT | $1,661 | $5,629,000 | 8.0 |
| STAFF | $521 | $1,764,000 | 2.5 |
| GENERAL ADMINISTRATION | $417 | $1,414,000 | 2.0 |
| SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION | $541 | $1,833,000 | 2.6 |
| OPERATION | $2,011 | $6,812,000 | 9.6 |
| TRANSPORTATION | $679 | $2,302,000 | 3.3 |
| OTHER | $990 | $3,355,000 | 4.7 |
| TOTAL SUPPORT | $6,821 | $23,109,000 | 32.7 |
| NON-INSTRUCTIONAL EXPENDITURES | $3,302 | $11,188,000 | 15.8 |
| TOTAL EXPENDITURES | $20,865 | $70,689,000 | 100.0 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT | |
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| ADULTS IN NEIGHBORHOOD WITH COLLEGE DEGREE OR HIGHER (%) | 66.6 |
| CHILDREN IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD LIVING IN POVERTY (%) | 2.3 |
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| WHITE (NON-HISPANIC) (%) | 84.2 | 51.3 |
| BLACK (%) | 1.1 | 18.4 |
| HISPANIC (%) | 5.3 | 22.9 |
| ASIAN OR PACIFIC ISLANDER (%) | 5.3 | 4.1 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN OR NATIVE OF ALASKA (%) | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| ECONOMIC GROUPS | THIS DISTRICT | THIS STATE |
| ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED (%) | 44.1 |
| FOR THIS DISTRICT | PER STUDENT | TOTAL | % OF TOTAL |
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| INSTRUCTIONAL EXPENDITURES | $6,052 | $15,705,000 | 47.7 |
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| STUDENT | $630 | $1,635,000 | 5.0 |
| STAFF | $535 | $1,389,000 | 4.2 |
| GENERAL ADMINISTRATION | $370 | $959,000 | 2.9 |
| SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION | $553 | $1,434,000 | 4.4 |
| OPERATION | $935 | $2,427,000 | 7.4 |
| TRANSPORTATION | $723 | $1,876,000 | 5.7 |
| OTHER | $574 | $1,489,000 | 4.5 |
| TOTAL SUPPORT | $4,319 | $11,209,000 | 34.0 |
| NON-INSTRUCTIONAL EXPENDITURES | $2,321 | $6,024,000 | 18.3 |
| TOTAL EXPENDITURES | $12,693 | $32,938,000 | 100.0 |
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| ADULTS IN NEIGHBORHOOD WITH COLLEGE DEGREE OR HIGHER (%) | 66.6 |
| CHILDREN IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD LIVING IN POVERTY (%) | 2.3 |
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| SINCE 1990 | 128.37% | 3.66% | 8 | 7 |
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