Olympia Fields
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human settlement in Illinois, United States of America
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Illinois
- County
- Cook
- Township
- Bloom , Rich
- Type
- Village
- Village president
- Sterling M. Burke
- Total
- 2.94 sq mi (7.62 km )
- Land
- 2.94 sq mi (7.61 km )
- Water
- 0.0039 sq mi (0.01 km )
- Density
- 1,606/sq mi (619.9/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Fips code
- 17-55938
- Wikimedia commons
- Olympia Fields, Illinois
- Website
- olympia-fields.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Olympia Fields
- Population
- 4718
- Area
- 2.94
- Official website
- www.olympia-fields.com
- Households
- 1960
- Dialing code
- 708
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- postal code
- 60461
- inception
- 1927-00-00
- per capita income
- 46882
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Olympia Fields is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 4,718 as of the 2020 census. It is a southern suburb of Chicago. The municipality grew up around the prestigious Olympia Fields Country Club, originally established in 1915.
Olympia Fields is noteworthy as one of the wealthiest and best educated, majority African-American communities in the United States. The village's zip code (60461) is one of three majority African American communities which rank among the top five percent in the U.S. for median household income and share of adults with college degrees, and Olympia Fields also has the highest black homeownership rate in the country among majority-black municipalities.