Oak Lawn is a larger medium-sized village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 56,286 people and 13 associated neighborhoods, Oak Lawn is the 22nd largest community in Illinois.Oak Lawn is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Oak Lawn is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oak Lawn who work in sales jobs (12.55%), office and administrative support (11.65%), and management occupations (8.70%). Also of interest is that Oak Lawn has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.65% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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. In Oak Lawn, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.19 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. One bright side is that local public transit is widely used, so it may be an option to avoid the headache of driving in the heavy traffic by leaving the car at home and taking transit. For the size of the village, public transportation in Oak Lawn is quite heavily used. Mostly, people who use it for their daily commute are taking the train. For Oak Lawn, the benefits are reduced air pollution and congestion on the highways.In terms of college education, Oak Lawn is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 29.26% of adults in Oak Lawn have a college degree. The per capita income in Oak Lawn in 2022 was $38,432, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $153,728 for a family of four. However, Oak Lawn contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Oak Lawn is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Oak Lawn home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Oak Lawn residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Oak Lawn also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 20.83% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Oak Lawn include Irish, Polish, German, Italian, and English. Foreign born people are also an important part of Oak Lawn's cultural character, accounting for 16.41% of the village’s population. The most common language spoken in Oak Lawn is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Arabic.
