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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Church Street Station / Grants Highway median real estate price is $337,585, which is more expensive than 65.4% of the neighborhoods in Illinois and 49.0% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Church Street Station / Grants Highway is currently $2,042, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 61.3% of the neighborhoods in Illinois.

Church Street Station / Grants Highway is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Hanover Park, Illinois.

Church Street Station / Grants Highway real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) apartment complexes/high-rise apartments and single-family homes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Church Street Station / Grants Highway neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.

Real estate vacancies in Church Street Station / Grants Highway are 5.9%, which is lower than one will find in 60.7% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Church Street Station / Grants Highway 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

The 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.

People

The Church Street Station / Grants Highway neighborhood stands out within Illinois for its college student friendly environment. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood is home to a number of college students, is relatively walkable, and above average in safety. In combination, this makes it stand out for a good place for college students to consider. Because a number of college students live here, this neighborhood may be close to a college campus and offer certain amenities nearby geared towards the student body. While it's not an environment for everyone, ambitious scholars can enjoy seasonal excitement between semesters and school breaks, and parents can rest easy knowing that the area has an above average safety rating. For each of these reasons, the neighborhood is rated among the top 7.0% of college-friendly places to live in IL.

Diversity

Did you know that the Church Street Station / Grants Highway neighborhood has more Mexican and South American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 56.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry and 6.0% have South American ancestry.

Church Street Station / Grants Highway is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Langs. of India at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

Migration / Stability

Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the Church Street Station / Grants Highway neighborhood. What is interesting to note, is that the Church Street Station / Grants Highway neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (43.1%) than are found in 95.4% 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 Church Street Station / Grants Highway neighborhood in Hanover Park are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 36.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.7% of U.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 Church Street Station / Grants Highway neighborhood, 39.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.5%), and 11.8% 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 Church Street Station / Grants Highway neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 57.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English, Langs. of India, 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 Church Street Station / Grants Highway neighborhood in Hanover Park, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (56.8%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report South American roots (6.0%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (3.7%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.2%), among others. In addition, 43.1% 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 Church Street Station / Grants Highway neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (73.8%) 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 (11.5%) . 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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