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Place dossier plate
SheetIL-INDIAN-HEAD-PARK-IL · Indian Head Park, IL 3,992 pop · income 82nd 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 Indian Head Park
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Indian Head Park on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Ridgway · lowest
52,059
Ridgway · lowest
52,059 median HH income
21.4% of the leader · rank #1
Orangeburg · near
107,000
Orangeburg · near
107,000 median HH income
44.0% of the leader · rank #2
Wesley Chapel · near
107,004
Wesley Chapel · near
107,004 median HH income
44.0% of the leader · rank #3
Indian Head P… · this city
107,019
Indian Head P… · this city
107,019 median HH income
44.0% of the leader · rank #4
Litchfield · near
107,024
Litchfield · near
107,024 median HH income
44.0% of the leader · rank #5
Wynantskill · near
107,045
Wynantskill · near
107,045 median HH income
44.0% of the leader · rank #6
Riverwoods · highest
243,036
Riverwoods · highest
243,036 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 Indian Head Park 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: 3,992.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Indian Head Park - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Indian Head Park lands in the 82nd percentile for household income and the 92nd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
82nd
percentile, household income
70th
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
92nd
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: Indian Head Park, IL
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 3,992 residents in Indian Head Park, a small town within Illinois. Households in Indian Head Park report a median income of $107,019 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.3%. Home values in Indian Head Park run a median of $337,700, and the median resident age is 52.8 years. Educational attainment runs 54.0% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 50.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 1 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Stable), up 0% from five years earlier. Indian Head Park reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 311.8 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: the state registers 100.0 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Near Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,063 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Illinois's average monthly utility costs around $240 (state average). 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 Indian Head Park'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 housing and income to population change to work and mobility to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Indian Head Park, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, 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 Indian Head Park?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 311.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 86% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Indian Head Park?
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 3.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Is Indian Head Park growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -105 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Which cities make useful reference points for Indian Head Park?
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 Riverwoods (3,988 residents, $243,036 income); Marshall (3,987 residents, $70,950 income); Burnham (3,978 residents, $55,708 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are San Miguel CDP (Contra Costa County), CA (3,991 residents); Friendship Heights, MD (3,991 residents); Ridgway, PA (3,991 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 Indian Head Park?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 68.6%. 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
68.6%
Work from home
21.2%
Public transit
6.4%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 1,718 workers age 16+.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
B+
City profile score · Indian Head Park, 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.
Violent crime A+
0 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share A
54.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A-
2.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income A-
$107,019
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
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.
Indian Head Park profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 97/100 (A+) · 0 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 87/100 (A) · 54.0%
Poverty rate: 84/100 (A-) · 2.3%
Household income: 80/100 (A-) · $107,019
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Where Indian Head Park sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Indian Head Park'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 - Indian Head Park highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Indian Head Park, IL (this city): home $337,700, crime 312/100k
Ridgway, PA : home $87,000, crime 1,203/100k
South Haven, MI : home $372,200, crime 5,632/100k
Basalt, CO : home $1,148,100, crime 1,496/100k
Riverwoods, IL : home $796,100, crime 645/100k
Marshall, IL : home $118,500, crime 1,375/100k
Millstadt, IL : home $205,400, crime 179/100k
South Chicago Heights, IL : home $136,000, crime 3,519/100k
How does Indian Head Park compare to other US cities?
Here's how Indian Head Park stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income82% higher than other cities
Home value70% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety92% 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, Indian Head Park ranks #69 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 Indian Head Park 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 Indian Head Park near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Indian Head Park ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Indian Head Park only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#173 of 1,311
87th percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#107 of 1,315
92nd percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#1,088 of 1,335
18th percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#93 of 1,336
93rd 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
82nd percentile nationally for median household income · 92nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Indian Head Park's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Indian Head Park'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 Indian Head Park's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$337,70030th percentilemore affordable than 30% 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
Indian Head Park's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,467 of 15,516
More affordable than 52% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#6,194 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.2×, Indian Head Park sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,467 of 15,516 and #6,194 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$107,019Indian Head Park, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Indian Head Park, 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 Indian Head Park, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)54.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)50.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
3,992
Median Income
$107,019
Median Home Value
$337,700
Median Age
52.8
Poverty Rate
2.3%
Labor force participation
50.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
54.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
311.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
0.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
311.8
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.
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Indian Head Park's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
4,066 residents
2021
3,994 residents
2022
3,947 residents
2023
3,940 residents
2024
3,966 residents
2025
3,961 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Stable
Total Permits (2024)
1
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
1
1
0
$0.8M
2020
0
0
0
-
2021
3
3
0
$1.2M
2022
1
1
0
$1.0M
2023
0
0
0
-
2024
1
1
0
$0.3M
Permit volume increased 0% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
68.6%
Carpool
3.7%
Public Transit
6.4%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
21.2%
Based on 1,718 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 Indian Head Park. 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 Indian Head Park 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 Indian Head Park sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Indian Head Park 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, 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.