Aroma Park is a tiny village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 652 people and just one neighborhood, Aroma Park is the 722nd largest community in Illinois.
Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Aroma Park is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Aroma Park is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Aroma Park who work in office and administrative support (14.66%), food service (11.73%), and sales jobs (8.50%).
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, Aroma Park has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Aroma Park a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small village, Aroma Park does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Aroma Park citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.81% of adults 25 and older in Aroma Park have a college degree.
The per capita income in Aroma Park in 2022 was $34,459, which is middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $137,836 for a family of four. However, Aroma Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Aroma Park is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Aroma Park home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Aroma Park residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Aroma Park also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.34% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Aroma Park include German, Irish, French, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Aroma Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Some neighborhoods are made up of apartments. Some consist of row houses, and most - by far - consist of a mixture of housing types. But the neighborhood stands out due to the total dominance of detached, single-family homes here. There are nearly no other types of residential real estate in the neighborhood. In fact, this neighborhood has a higher proportion of single-family homes in its real estate stock than 95.0% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.9% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.3% 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 Aroma Park are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.5% 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 66.4% 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, 36.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.3%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 94.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish, 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 Aroma Park, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.1%), and residents who report English roots (9.0%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (7.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (6.9%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.4%) 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 (5.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.