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Rosemont, IL

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Overview


Rosemont is a very small village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 3,806 people and just one neighborhood, Rosemont is the 403rd largest community in Illinois.

Rosemont real estate is some of the most expensive in Illinois, although Rosemont house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Rosemont is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Rosemont is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rosemont who work in office and administrative support (16.68%), management occupations (7.17%), and maintenance occupations (6.19%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The citizens of Rosemont are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.48% of adults in Rosemont having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Rosemont in 2018 was $36,230, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $144,920 for a family of four. However, Rosemont contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Rosemont is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Rosemont home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rosemont residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Rosemont also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 45.81% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Rosemont include Italian, German, Irish, Polish, and Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac.

Rosemont also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 45.11%.

The most common language spoken in Rosemont is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Slavic languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

One of the really unique and interesting things about the look and setting of the neighborhood is that it is almost entirely dominated by large apartment buildings, such as apartment complexes or high-rise apartments. 70.7% of the residential real estate here is classified as such. This puts this neighborhood on the map as having a higher proportion of large apartment buildings than 95.2% of all neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Yugoslav and Greek ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Yugoslav ancestry and 3.8% have Greek ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Tagalog, which is the first language of the Philippine region, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 neighborhood in Rosemont are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.6% 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 76.7% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 30.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.0%), and 21.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The 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 neighborhood is English, spoken by 57.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region) and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston'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 neighborhood in Rosemont, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (24.0%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (15.9%), and residents who report German roots (13.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (12.2%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (10.0%), among others. In addition, 27.0% 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 neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (78.4%) 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 (8.0%) . 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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