Glen Ellyn is a medium-sized village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 28,364 people and seven associated neighborhoods, Glen Ellyn is the 72nd largest community in Illinois. Glen Ellyn home prices are not only among the most expensive in Illinois, but Glen Ellyn real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.Glen Ellyn is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 90.53% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Glen Ellyn is a village of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Glen Ellyn who work in management occupations (16.12%), sales jobs (14.42%), and business and financial occupations (11.97%). Also of interest is that Glen Ellyn has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. A relatively large number of people in Glen Ellyn telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 26.47% 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. In addition, Glen Ellyn is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates", which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre. Because of many things, Glen Ellyn is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Glen Ellyn really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Glen Ellyn perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live. One downside of living in Glen Ellyn is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Glen Ellyn, the average commute to work is 30.64 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. On the other hand, local public transit is widely used in the village, so leaving the car at home and taking transit is often a viable alternative. For the size of the village, public transportation in Glen Ellyn is quite heavily used. Mostly, people who use it for their daily commute are taking the train. For Glen Ellyn, the benefits are reduced air pollution and congestion on the highways.Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Glen Ellyn, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Glen Ellyn is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 68.20% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 21.84%. The per capita income in Glen Ellyn in 2022 was $72,404, which is wealthy relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $289,616 for a family of four. However, Glen Ellyn contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Glen Ellyn is a very ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Glen Ellyn home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Glen Ellyn residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Glen Ellyn include German, Irish, Polish, Italian, and English. The most common language spoken in Glen Ellyn is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
