Creve Coeur is a very small village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 4,854 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 (19.52%), food service (13.04%), and teaching (8.45%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 21.21% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
The village is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Creve Coeur has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Creve Coeur a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small village, Creve Coeur does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Creve Coeur is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.22% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Creve Coeur in 2022 was $40,767, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $163,068 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 Irish, German, 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.
Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 22.9% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 98.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 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 78.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.8% 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 53.8% 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, 36.4% 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 26.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (26.4%), and 10.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.7%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – 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 neighborhood in Creve Coeur, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (16.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.8%), and residents who report Italian roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.9%), 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 (59.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (70.5%) 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 (8.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.