About Glencoe, IL (Skokie Ridge / Skokie Heights) Real Estate Prices and Overview Skokie Ridge / Skokie Heights median real estate price is $1,887,109, which is more expensive than 99.6% of the neighborhoods in Illinois and 96.9% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. The average rental price in Skokie Ridge / Skokie Heights is currently $3,433, based on 蘑菇视频's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 91.6% of the neighborhoods in Illinois. Skokie Ridge / Skokie Heights is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Glencoe, Illinois. Skokie Ridge / Skokie Heights real estate is primarily made up of large (four, five or more bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) single-family homes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Skokie Ridge / Skokie Heights neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built before 1940. Home and apartment vacancy rates are 8.8% in Skokie Ridge / Skokie Heights. 蘑菇视频 analysis shows that this rate is lower than 42.6% of the neighborhoods in the nation, approximately near the middle range for vacancies. Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics Notable & Unique: People Do you like to read, write, and learn? Are you curious about the world? If so, this neighborhood may be a good fit for you. 蘑菇视频's research revealed that a full 88.2% of the adults living in the Skokie Ridge / Skokie Heights neighborhood have earned at least a bachelor's degree. This is a higher rate than 蘑菇视频 found in 99.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In this way, this neighborhood truly stands out. In addition, if you come to know the people here, you will recognize that you're in the company of one of the wealthiest communities in the nation. In fact, a mere 0.6% of America's neighborhoods are wealthier than the Skokie Ridge / Skokie Heights neighborhood. Real estate here is exceedingly well-maintained, and similarly, tends to maintain its value over time. The cars driven are mostly luxury brands like Mercedes, Audi, BMW, and Lexus. If the public schools aren't up to snuff, the residents of this neighborhood preferentially send their children to private preparatory schools. Vacation to Disney? Yes, but equally popular are summers in Europe. Also, think about the people you know personally. How many of them would purchase box seats to opening night at the symphony? How many of them regularly attend gallery openings, or are the first to reserve tickets to opening night at the ballet? If they're like most of us, they don't do any of these things. But if you're among an exclusive crowd of wealthy and refined patrons of the arts, then you'll feel right at home in the Skokie Ridge / Skokie Heights neighborhood: a neighborhood in which more "urban sophisticates" live than 99.2% of neighborhoods across the U.S. Here, your neighbors are defined as having urbane tastes in literature, music, live theatre and the arts. They are wealthy, educated, travel in style, and live a big city lifestyle whether or not they live in or near a big city. In addition to being an excellent choice for urban sophisticates, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for highly educated executives and families with school-aged children. Finally, astoundingly, 蘑菇视频's research reveals that this single neighborhood has a higher concentration of married couples living here than 97.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Whether they have school-aged children or not, married couples are the rule in the Skokie Ridge / Skokie Heights neighborhood. If you are a married couple, you may find many people here with a similar lifestyle, and perhaps common interests. But if you are single, you might not find many other singles here. Notable & Unique: Occupations Executives, managers and professionals make up 78.6% of the workforce in the Skokie Ridge / Skokie Heights neighborhood which, according to 蘑菇视频's exclusive analysis, is a higher proportion of such high-level people than is found in 98.6% of the neighborhoods in America. For this reason, this neighborhood really stands out as unique. Notable & Unique: Modes of Transportation If you like to ride the train to work, this neighborhood may be for you. 蘑菇视频's research revealed that 20.0% of the Skokie Ridge / Skokie Heights neighborhood's commuters ride the train to and from work each day, which is more than we found in 97.4% of America's neighborhoods. Notable & Unique: Real Estate One way that the Skokie Ridge / Skokie Heights neighborhood really stands out, is that it has more large 4, 5, or additional bedroom homes and real estate than 96.7% of the neighborhoods in America. When you walk or drive around this neighborhood, you'll instantly notice the size of the homes here which definitely makes a strong visual statement. Notable & Unique: Diversity Did you know that the Skokie Ridge / Skokie Heights neighborhood has more Russian and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 15.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Russian ancestry and 3.1% have Croatian ancestry. Skokie Ridge / Skokie Heights is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Russian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America. The Neighbors: Income 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. 蘑菇视频's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood. The neighbors in the Skokie Ridge / Skokie Heights neighborhood in Glencoe are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. 蘑菇视频's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 99.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.4% 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 69.5% of America's neighborhoods. The Neighbors: Occupations 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 Skokie Ridge / Skokie Heights neighborhood, 78.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 17.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions (2.2%). The Neighbors: Languages The most common language spoken in the Skokie Ridge / Skokie Heights neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.8% of households. The Neighbors: Ethnicity / Ancestry Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture 鈥� our learned behavior 鈥� 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 Skokie Ridge / Skokie Heights neighborhood in Glencoe, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.2%). There are also a number of people of Russian ancestry (15.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.8%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (8.2%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.5%), among others. Getting to Work How you get to work 鈥� car, bus, train or other means 鈥� 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 Skokie Ridge / Skokie Heights neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (43.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America. Here most residents (44.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also take the train to get to work (20.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.