LIVING IN BOLINGBROOK
Bolingbrook is a larger medium-sized village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 75,178 people and 14 constituent neighborhoods, Bolingbrook is the 17th largest community in Illinois.
Bolingbrook real estate is some of the most expensive in Illinois, although Bolingbrook house values don’t compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Bolingbrook is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Bolingbrook is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bolingbrook who work in office and administrative support (13.48%), sales jobs (9.85%), and management occupations (8.72%).
Also of interest is that Bolingbrook has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Because of many things, Bolingbrook 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, Bolingbrook really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Bolingbrook 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 Bolingbrook, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.94 minutes every day commuting to work.