Population (year 2000): 34,496
Est. population in July 2002: 35,483 (+2.9% change)
Males: 16,967 (49.2%)
Females: 17,529 (50.8%)
Elevation: 650 feet
County: Cook
Land area: 8.4 square miles
Zip code: 60090
Median resident age: 34.5 years
Median household income: $55,491 (year 2000)
Median house value: $160,900 (year 2000)
- For population 25 years and over in Wheeling
- High school or higher: 82.6%
- Bachelor’s degree or higher: 32.1%
- Graduate or professional degree: 10.5%
- Unemployed: 2.7%
- Mean travel time to work: 25.8 minutes
- Single-family new house construction building permits:
- 2000: 81 buildings, average cost: $100,000
- 2001: 12 buildings, average cost: $145,900
- 2002: 65 buildings, average cost: $105,100
- 2003: 78 buildings, average cost: $96,700
- 2004: 11 buildings, average cost: $140,600
- 2005: 29 buildings, average cost: $206,800
- Industries providing employment:
- Manufacturing (20.6%)
- Professional,scientific,management,administrative
Waste management services (14.1%) - Retail trade (13.5%)
- Educational,health and social services (12.9%)
- Suburban Hospitals:
- Current list including links click here
- Airports:
- O’Hare (Chicago, IL; Airport ID: ORD)
- Kenosha Regional (Kenosha, WI; Airport ID: ENW)
- Midway International (Chicago, IL; Airport ID: MDW)
- Palwaukee Municipal (Prospect Heights, IL; Airport ID: PWK)
- Schaumburg Regional Airport(Schaumburg, IL; Airport ID: 4H1)
- Campbell Airport (Grayslake, IL; Airport ID: C81)
- Chicagoland Colleges
- Current list with links click here
- Public schools in Wheeling:
- Current list with links click here
- Library in Wheeling:
- Indian Trails Public Library
355 S. Schoenbeck Rd.
213,268 books; 13,709 audio materials; 10,954 video materials; 437 serial subscriptions
- Wheeling compared to Illinois state average:
- Median household income above state average.
- Median house value above state average.
- Unemployed percentage below state average.
- Foreign-born population percentage significantly above state average.
- House age below state average.
- Percentage of population with a bachelor’s degree or higher above state average.
