Creve Coeur is a very small village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 4,828 people and just one neighborhood, Creve Coeur is the 345th largest community in Illinois.
Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Creve Coeur is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Creve Coeur is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Creve Coeur who work in sales jobs (19.61%), food service (15.70%), and office and administrative support (9.17%).
A relatively large number of people in Creve Coeur telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 23.71% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Creve Coeur has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Creve Coeur has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Creve Coeur than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Creve Coeur may be for you.
One of the benefits of Creve Coeur is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.92 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
As is often the case in a small village, Creve Coeur doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Creve Coeur with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.53% of adults in Creve Coeur have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Creve Coeur in 2022 was $30,622, which is lower middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $122,488 for a family of four. However, Creve Coeur contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Creve Coeur home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Creve Coeur residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Creve Coeur include German, Irish, European, Italian, and English.
The most common language spoken in Creve Coeur is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Creve Coeur, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
From major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees are often the backbone of the local economy. In the neighborhood, they truly stand out. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and service workers than 96.0% of all American neighborhoods.
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 Creve Coeur are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.9% 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 50.3% of America's neighborhoods.
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 neighborhood, 38.5% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.9%), and 11.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.7%).
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 Creve Coeur, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.7%), and residents who report Italian roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.1%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (1.8%), among others.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (55.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (66.7%) 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 (9.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.