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North Riverside, IL

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Overview


North Riverside is a somewhat small village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 7,147 people and just one neighborhood, North Riverside is the 271st largest community in Illinois.

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

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages, North Riverside isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in North Riverside are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, North Riverside is a village of professionals, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in North Riverside who work in teaching (10.38%), management occupations (10.34%), and sales jobs (8.83%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 12.13% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The education level of North Riverside citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 37.63% of adults in North Riverside have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in North Riverside in 2022 was $41,272, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $165,088 for a family of four. However, North Riverside contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

North Riverside is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call North Riverside home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of North Riverside residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. North Riverside also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 19.09% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in North Riverside include German, Polish, Irish, Czech, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in North Riverside is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Serbo-Croatian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 1.2% have Lithuanian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Portuguese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary 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 neighborhood in North Riverside are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 1.1% 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 78.5% 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, 44.8% 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 23.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.8%), and 10.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

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 72.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Portuguese.

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 North Riverside, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (20.2%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.8%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (7.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (7.3%), among others. In addition, 13.6% 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 (27.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (78.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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