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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Heggie Park median real estate price is $153,452, which is less expensive than 78.0% of Illinois neighborhoods and 86.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in Heggie Park is currently $1,918, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 45.9% of Illinois neighborhoods.

Heggie Park is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Joliet, Illinois.

Heggie Park real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Heggie Park neighborhood are relatively historic, built no later than 1939, and in some cases, quite a bit earlier. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.

Real estate vacancies in Heggie Park are 4.2%, which is lower than one will find in 72.2% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Heggie Park is above average for the U.S., and may signal some demand for either price increases or new construction of residential product for this neighborhood.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Joliet, the Heggie Park neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the Heggie Park neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 50.9% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.1% of American neighborhoods.

People

The Heggie Park neighborhood is unique for having just 5.6% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.6% of America's neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the Heggie Park neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 86.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

Heggie Park is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 78.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 98.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the Heggie Park neighborhood in Joliet are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the Heggie Park neighborhood, 50.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 26.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (13.2%), and 7.3% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Heggie Park neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 78.8% of households. Some people also speak English (21.2%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the Heggie Park neighborhood in Joliet, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (86.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (2.4%), and residents who report German roots (2.3%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (1.3%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (1.1%), among others. In addition, 37.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in Heggie Park neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (82.5%) 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 (9.8%) . 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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