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Place dossier plate
SheetIL-GLEN-ELLYN-IL · Glen Ellyn, IL 28,270 pop · income 91st pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Glen Ellyn
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Glen Ellyn on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Danville · lowest
44,239
Danville · lowest
44,239 median HH income
33.2% of the leader · rank #1
Elm Grove · near
133,304
Elm Grove · near
133,304 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #2
Glen Ellyn · this city
133,346
Glen Ellyn · this city
133,346 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #3
Chesterfield · near
133,380
Chesterfield · near
133,380 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #4
Great River · near
133,385
Great River · near
133,385 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
Ponderosa Park · near
133,425
Ponderosa Park · near
133,425 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
Red Feather L… · highest
133,444
Red Feather L… · highest
133,444 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Glen Ellyn on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 28,270.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Glen Ellyn - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Glen Ellyn lands in the 91st percentile for household income and the 80th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
91st
percentile, household income
86th
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
80th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Glen Ellyn, IL
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 28,270 residents in Glen Ellyn, a small city within Illinois. The typical household in Glen Ellyn brings in $133,346 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.6%. Home values in Glen Ellyn run a median of $522,600, and the median resident age is 41.3 years. About 68.3% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 61.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 21 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Slowing), down 12% from five years earlier. Glen Ellyn reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 628.2 crimes per 100,000 residents, below the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score).
Illinois tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Illinois at 100.0 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Near Average). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,063 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $240 across Illinois, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Natural-hazard exposure scores 54.5 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Glen Ellyn's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from reported crime to population change to housing and income to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Glen Ellyn, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What can the FBI record say about safety in Glen Ellyn?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 628.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 72% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
Is Glen Ellyn growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -206 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 21 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
How far does income reach against housing in Glen Ellyn?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Glen Ellyn?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Illinois, the closest population matches are Lansing (28,415 residents, $71,805 income); Danville (28,663 residents, $44,239 income); Huntley (27,859 residents, $86,349 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Bergenfield, NJ (28,269 residents); Rockledge, FL (28,279 residents); Fort Mill, SC (28,281 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Glen Ellyn?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 55.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Drive alone
55.6%
Work from home
28.2%
Public transit
8.1%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 13,302 workers age 16+.
What does the education layer cover for Glen Ellyn?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 11 public schools within the city match. 68.3% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Poverty estimate
3.6%
Bachelor's degree+
68.3%
Matched public schools
11
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Top-decile income · poverty 3.6% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
100.0 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
B+
City profile score · Glen Ellyn, IL
77/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Bachelor's+ share A+
68.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A+
$133,346
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime A-
50 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate B
3.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living D
100.0 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Glen Ellyn profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 97/100 (A+) · 68.3%
Household income: 91/100 (A+) · $133,346
Violent crime: 84/100 (A-) · 50 /100k
Poverty rate: 74/100 (B) · 3.6%
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Where Glen Ellyn sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Glen Ellyn's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Glen Ellyn highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Glen Ellyn, IL (this city): home $522,600, crime 628/100k
Bergenfield, NJ : home $469,200, crime 281/100k
Fort Mill, SC : home $457,000, crime 678/100k
Aberdeen, SD : home $205,500, crime 1,678/100k
Forney, TX : home $323,500, crime 808/100k
Lansing, IL : home $168,500, crime 2,230/100k
Danville, IL : home $76,800, crime 7,361/100k
Huntley, IL : home $318,500, crime 457/100k
McHenry, IL : home $244,900, crime 714/100k
Burbank, IL : home $258,900, crime 2,163/100k
Lake in the Hills, IL : home $296,400, crime 508/100k
How does Glen Ellyn compare to other US cities?
Where Glen Ellyn sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income91% higher than other cities
Home value86% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety80% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Illinois alone, Glen Ellyn ranks #144 of 455 Illinois cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Glen Ellyn against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Illinois only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Illinois-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Glen Ellyn near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Glen Ellyn ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Glen Ellyn only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#75 of 1,311
94th percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#39 of 1,315
97th percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#963 of 1,335
27th percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#41 of 1,336
97th percentile in Illinois
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Illinois only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
91st percentile nationally for median household income · 80th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Glen Ellyn's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Glen Ellyn's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Glen Ellyn's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$522,60014th percentilemore affordable than 14% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Glen Ellyn's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,457 of 15,516
More affordable than 33% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,914 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.9×, Glen Ellyn sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,457 of 15,516 and #1,914 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$133,346Glen Ellyn, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Glen Ellyn, IL median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Glen Ellyn, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)68.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)61.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
28,270
Median Income
$133,346
Median Home Value
$522,600
Median Age
41.3
Poverty Rate
3.6%
Labor force participation
61.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
68.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
628.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
49.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
578.5
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
11
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Glen Ellyn's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
28,956 residents
2021
28,738 residents
2022
28,551 residents
2023
28,595 residents
2024
28,762 residents
2025
28,750 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
21
housing units authorized
Single-Family
21
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
24
24
0
$12.8M
2020
19
19
0
$10.3M
2021
18
18
0
$13.1M
2022
11
11
0
$8.8M
2023
25
21
4
$20.2M
2024
21
21
0
$16.2M
Permit volume decreased 12% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
55.6%
Carpool
4.1%
Public Transit
8.1%
Walk
2.9%
Work from Home
28.2%
Other
1.1%
Based on 13,302 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Illinois statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $240
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Illinois at $240 (electricity about $100 , water and sewer about $50 ).
These are Illinois statewide averages, not a meter reading for Glen Ellyn. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Illinois's BEA cost-of-living index is 100.0 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Glen Ellyn is $1,063/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Illinois statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 54.5 / 100 (Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Illinois statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Glen Ellyn sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Glen Ellyn compares to similar-size Illinois cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.