South Chicago Heights is a very small village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 3,835 people and just one neighborhood, South Chicago Heights is the 396th largest community in Illinois.
South Chicago Heights is a blue-collar town, with 40.26% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, South Chicago Heights is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in South Chicago Heights who work in office and administrative support (16.09%), food service (10.41%), and sales jobs (10.02%).
Also of interest is that South Chicago Heights has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
For a small village, South Chicago Heights has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride taxis. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in South Chicago Heights exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.
In terms of college education, the citizens of South Chicago Heights rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.47% of adults 25 and older in South Chicago Heights have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in South Chicago Heights in 2022 was $27,442, which is low income relative to Illinois, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $109,768 for a family of four. However, South Chicago Heights contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
South Chicago Heights is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call South Chicago Heights home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of South Chicago Heights residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. South Chicago Heights also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 32.94% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in South Chicago Heights include Italian, German, Irish, Czech, and Polish.
In addition, South Chicago Heights has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (15.56%).
The most common language spoken in South Chicago Heights is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (25.7%) than in 97.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
Significantly, 6.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 South Chicago Heights are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A 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 sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 40.3% 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 (18.5%), and 14.3% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
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 67.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in South Chicago Heights, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (27.3%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report German roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.1%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (3.3%), among others. In addition, 15.6% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
How 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 neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (63.6%) 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 (25.7%) and 5.1% of residents also take the train for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.