Buffalo Grove, IL (Illinois) Houses and Residents

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Buffalo Grove Apartments for Rent

Total population: 42,972 (All urban)

Buffalo Grove, Illinois Age and Sex of Residents

Houses: 15,935 (15,601 occupied: 13,596 owner occupied, 2,005 renter occupied)

% of renters here:	13%
State:	33%

Housing density: 1733 houses/condos per square mile

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Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses and condos in 2007 in this county: $344,308.

Median contract rent in 2007: $1,284 (lower quartile is $1,103, upper quartile is $1,589)

Median rent asked for vacant for-rent units in 2007: $1,421

Median gross rent in Buffalo Grove, IL in 2007: $1,418

Housing units in Buffalo Grove with a mortgage: 9,217 (766 second mortgage, 1,487 home equity loan, 34 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,393

Buffalo Grove,IL index of house prices

Estimated median house or condo value in 2007: $392,109 (it was $214,700 in 2000)

Buffalo Grove:	$392,109
Illinois:	$208,800

Lower value quartile - upper value quartile: $313,639 - $531,650

Mean price in 2007:

Detached houses: $507,594
Here: $507,594
State: $269,211

Townhouses or other attached units: $316,604
Here: $316,604
State: $258,887

In 2-unit structures: $347,004
Here: $347,004
State: $320,810

In 3-to-4-unit structures: $255,499
Here: $255,499
State: $330,214

In 5-or-more-unit structures: $226,585
Here: $226,585
State: $275,408

Mobile homes: $114,333
Here: $114,333
State: $35,670

Household type by relationship

Households: 42,352

In family households: 37,760 (9,704 male householders, 1,943 female householders)
10,613 spouses, 14,207 children (13,538 natural, 359 adopted, 310 stepchildren), 161 grandchildren, 150 brothers or sisters, 286 parents, 346 other relatives, 350 non-relatives
In nonfamily households: 4,592 (1,561 male householders (1,243 living alone)), 2,357 female householders (2,111 living alone)), 674 nonrelatives
In group quarters: 239 (all institutionalized)

Size of family households: 4,071 2-persons, 2,685 3-persons, 3,377 4-persons, 1,174 5-persons, 285 6-persons, 55 7-or-more-persons.

Size of nonfamily households: 3,354 1-person, 485 2-persons, 67 3-persons, 12 4-persons.

11,001 married couples with children.
1,115 single-parent households (203 men, 912 women).

75.5% of residents of Buffalo Grove speak English at home.
3.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (64% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 17% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
13.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (60% speak English very well, 32% speak English well, 7% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
6.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (52% speak English very well, 32% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
1.2% of residents speak other language at home (87% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 2% don't speak English at all).

Foreign born population: 8,690 (20.4%)
(51.5% of them are naturalized citizens)

Median number of rooms in houses and condos:

Here:	6.8
State:	6.1

Median number of rooms in apartments:

Here:	3.9
State:	4.1

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Rooms in owner-occupied houses in Buffalo Grove, Illinois:
	1 room: 21 2 rooms: 169 3 rooms: 419 4 rooms: 1,115 5 rooms: 2,194 6 rooms: 2,333 7 rooms: 2,155 8 rooms: 2,717 9 or more rooms: 2,473

Rooms in renter-occupied apartments in Buffalo Grove, Illinois:
	1 room: 58 2 rooms: 204 3 rooms: 448 4 rooms: 671 5 rooms: 345 6 rooms: 168 7 rooms: 57 8 rooms: 37 9 or more rooms: 17

Year house built:

1999 to March 2000: 118
1995 to 1998: 1,316
1990 to 1994: 2,132
1980 to 1989: 5,300
1970 to 1979: 4,402
1960 to 1969: 2,115
1950 to 1959: 442
1940 to 1949: 52
1939 or earlier: 58

Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses and condos in Buffalo Grove:
	no bedroom: 51 1 bedroom: 645 2 bedrooms: 3,130 3 bedrooms: 4,535 4 bedrooms: 4,551 5 or more bedrooms: 684

Bedrooms in renter-occupied apartments in Buffalo Grove:
	no bedroom: 99 1 bedroom: 624 2 bedrooms: 973 3 bedrooms: 213 4 bedrooms: 91 5 or more bedrooms: 5

Owners and renters by unit type in %

Breakdown of mean house values by ages of householders

Cars and other vehicles available in Buffalo Grove in owner-occupied houses/condos:
	no vehicle: 200 1 vehicle: 3,537 2 vehicles: 7,658 3 vehicles: 1,822 4 vehicles: 266 5 or more vehicles: 113

Cars and other vehicles available in Buffalo Grove in n renter-occupied apartments
	no vehicle: 150 1 vehicle: 942 2 vehicles: 754 3 vehicles: 118 4 vehicles: 32 5 or more vehicles: 9

Estimate of home value of owner-occupied houses in 2007 in Buffalo Grove, IL:

Less than $10,000: 0
$10,000 to $14,999: 0
$15,000 to $19,999: 0
$20,000 to $24,999: 0
$25,000 to $29,999: 2
$30,000 to $34,999: 4
$35,000 to $39,999: 1
$40,000 to $49,999: 0
$50,000 to $59,999: 9
$60,000 to $69,999: 18
$70,000 to $79,999: 13
$80,000 to $89,999: 10
$90,000 to $99,999: 58
$100,000 to $124,999: 129
$125,000 to $149,999: 257
$150,000 to $174,999: 275
$175,000 to $199,999: 382
$200,000 to $249,999: 1084
$250,000 to $299,999: 1487
$300,000 to $399,999: 3312
$400,000 to $499,999: 2743
$500,000 to $749,999: 2708
$750,000 to $999,999: 688
$1,000,000 or more: 437

Buffalo Grove rent paid by renters for apartments graph

Rent paid by renters in 2007 in Buffalo Grove:

Less than $100: 5 people
$100 to $149: 4
$150 to $199: 5
$200 to $249: 10
$250 to $299: 2
$300 to $349: 4
$350 to $399: 7
$400 to $449: 6
$450 to $499: 0
$500 to $549: 0
$550 to $599: 0
$600 to $649: 1
$650 to $699: 16
$700 to $749: 41
$750 to $799: 56
$800 to $899: 116
$900 to $999: 141
$1,000 to $1,249: 479
$1,250 to $1,499: 420
$1,500 to $1,999: 450
$2,000 or more: 202
No cash rent: 42

Year of entry for the foreign-born population
	1995 to March 2000: 1,896 1990 to 1994: 2,188 1985 to 1989: 1,763 1980 to 1984: 681 1975 to 1979: 699 1970 to 1974: 448 1970 to 1974: 218 1965 to 1969: 797

Buffalo Grove, IL Time Leaving Home for Work

Percentage of workers working in this county: 49.4%
Number of people working at home: 928 (4.1% of all workers)

Travel time to work

Less than 5 minutes: 401
5 to 9 minutes: 1703
10 to 14 minutes: 2364
15 to 19 minutes: 2431
20 to 24 minutes: 2927
25 to 29 minutes: 1344
30 to 34 minutes: 3555
35 to 39 minutes: 926
40 to 44 minutes: 1411
45 to 59 minutes: 2291
60 to 89 minutes: 1692
90 or more minutes: 755

Buffalo Grove mode of transportation to work chart

Means of transportation to work

Drove a car alone: 18,922 (83%)
Carpooled: 1,315 (6%)
Bus or trolley bus: 63 (0%)
Streetcar or trolley car: 10 (0%)
Subway or elevated: 97 (0%)
Railroad: 1,058 (5%)
Taxi: 18 (0%)
Walked: 198 (1%)
Other means: 119 (1%)
Worked at home: 928 (4%)

Household income:

Less than $10,000: 255
$10,000 to $14,999: 228
$15,000 to $19,999: 315
$20,000 to $24,999: 399
$25,000 to $29,999: 435
$30,000 to $34,999: 705
$35,000 to $39,999: 547
$40,000 to $44,999: 607
$45,000 to $49,999: 528
$50,000 to $59,999: 1271
$60,000 to $74,999: 1883
$75,000 to $99,999: 2605
$100,000 to $124,999: 2156
$125,000 to $149,999: 1229
$150,000 to $199,999: 1235
$200,000 or more: 1167

First ancestries reported:

Other groups: 7736

Russian: 5578

German: 4434

Polish: 3809

Irish: 2505

United States or American: 2459

Italian: 1871

English: 1177

Ukrainian: 918

European: 541

Eastern European: 521

Norwegian: 519

Swedish: 515

French (except Basque): 357

Dutch: 303

Hungarian: 295

Scottish: 290

Greek: 252

Austrian: 228

Israeli: 226

French Canadian: 203

Scotch-Irish: 201

Romanian: 195

Lithuanian: 187

Arab:: 156

Czech: 148

Danish: 122

Iranian: 116

Canadian: 99

Czechoslovakian: 96

British: 79

Slovak: 77

Belgian: 77

Subsaharan African:: 75

Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac: 73

Latvian: 63

Turkish: 62

Serbian: 62

South African: 59

Syrian: 54

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups):: 52

Egyptian: 39

Welsh: 39

Finnish: 38

Croatian: 34

Bulgarian: 32

Haitian: 30

Slavic: 29

Armenian: 26

Swiss: 20

Arab/Arabic: 19

German Russian: 19

Luxemburger: 17

Northern European: 17

Lebanese: 16

Moroccan: 13

Portuguese: 11

African: 10

Belizean: 9

Jordanian: 8

Yugoslavian: 8

Jamaican: 7

Other Arab: 7

Scandinavian: 7

Other Subsaharan African: 6

West Indian: 6

Slovene: 5

Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents (%):

Ukraine (13%)
Russia (13%)
Korea (9%)
Poland (6%)
Japan (6%)
India (6%)
Belarus (6%)

Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:

This state: 26136
Northeast: 2276
Midwest: 3372
South: 1148
West: 678

64% of Buffalo Grove residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 46% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 69% lived in Illinois.

Education attainment for males 25 years and older:

No schooling: 8
Nursery to 4th grade: 14
5th and 6th grade: 26
7th and 8th grade: 103
9th grade: 31
10th grade: 89
11th grade: 87
12th grade, no diploma: 203
High school graduate (or equivalency): 1,407
Less than 1 year of college: 785
Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 1,573
Associate degree: 680
Bachelor's degree: 4,932
Master's degree: 2,228
Professional school degree: 821
Doctorate degree: 214

Educational Attainment for Males

Education attainment for females 25 years and older:

No schooling: 44
Nursery to 4th grade: 16
5th and 6th grade: 26
7th and 8th grade: 161
9th grade: 62
10th grade: 135
11th grade: 75
12th grade, no diploma: 235
High school graduate (or equivalency): 2,517
Less than 1 year of college: 960
Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 2,078
Associate degree: 1,045
Bachelor's degree: 4,986
Master's degree: 1,971
Professional school degree: 386
Doctorate degree: 127

Educational Attainment for Females

Class of Workers

Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic males: 1.8%
Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic females: 2.5%

Unemployment rate for Black males: 7.1%
Unemployment rate for Black females: 0.0%

Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native males: 0.0%
Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native females: 0.0%

Unemployment rate for Asian males: 3.8%
Unemployment rate for Asian females: 0.0%

Unemployment rate for other race males: 0.0%
Unemployment rate for other race females: 0.0%

Unemployment rate for two or more race males: 7.7%
Unemployment rate for two or more race females: 0.0%

Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino males: 0.0%
Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino females: 2.4%

Median household income in 2007 for:

White non-Hispanic householders: $98,492
Black householders: $60,582
American Indian and Alaska Native householders: $28,022
Asian householders: $103,952
Some other race householders: $73,155
Two or more races householders: $76,786
Hispanic or Latino race householders: $67,098

Buffalo Grove household income for White non-Hispanic householders

Buffalo Grove household income for Black householders

Buffalo Grove household income for American Indian and Alaska Native householders

Buffalo Grove household income for Asian householders

Buffalo Grove household income for Some other race householders

Buffalo Grove household income for Two or more races householders

Buffalo Grove household income for Hispanic or Latino race householders

Buffalo Grove marital status for males

Buffalo Grove marital status for females

Median 2007 house value for:

White Non-Hispanic householders: $430,096
Black or African American householders: $355,765
American Indian or Alaska Native householders: $981,642
Asian householders: $464,979
Some other race householders: $313,212
Two or more races householders: $333,302
Hispanic or Latino householders: $378,229

Housing units in structures:

One, detached: 8,750
One, attached: 2,631
Two: 57
3 or 4: 764
5 to 9: 593
10 to 19: 948
20 to 49: 1,290
50 or more: 887
Mobile homes: 15

Median worth of mobile homes: $19,968

Housing units lacking complete plumbing facilities: 0%

Housing units lacking complete kitchen facilities: 0%

Year Householders Moved Into Unit in Buffalo Grove:

Most commonly used house heating fuel in houses and condos:
	Utility gas (95%) Electricity (4%) Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)

Most commonly used house heating fuel in apartments:
	Utility gas (80%) Electricity (18%) Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%) No fuel used (1%)

Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 347

Here:	5.9%
Illinois:	13.4%

Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 70

Here:	2.5%
Illinois:	11.1%

Students in private undergraduate colleges: 404

Here:	26.7%
Illinois:	25.8%

School Enrollment by Level of School for Male Students

School Enrollment by Level of School for Female Students

Age and Sex of Sensory-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Physically-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Mentally-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

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