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SheetIL-LAKE-IN-THE-HILLS-IL · Lake in the Hills, IL 28,853 pop · income 85th 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 Lake in the Hills
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Lake in the Hills on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Greenville · lowest
36,297
Greenville · lowest
36,297 median HH income
27.2% of the leader · rank #1
Madera Ranchos · near
113,472
Madera Ranchos · near
113,472 median HH income
85.1% of the leader · rank #2
Lake in the H… · this city
113,491
Lake in the H… · this city
113,491 median HH income
85.1% of the leader · rank #3
McCordsville · near
113,495
McCordsville · near
113,495 median HH income
85.1% of the leader · rank #4
Johnsonburg · near
113,500
Johnsonburg · near
113,500 median HH income
85.1% of the leader · rank #5
Francis · near
113,500
Francis · near
113,500 median HH income
85.1% of the leader · rank #6
Glen Ellyn · highest
133,346
Glen Ellyn · highest
133,346 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 Lake in the Hills 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: 28,853.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Lake in the Hills - the verdict
Lake in the Hills ranks in the 85th percentile for household income and the 85th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
85th
percentile, household income
65th
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
85th
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: Lake in the Hills, IL
Lake in the Hills is a small city in Illinois, home to 28,853 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Lake in the Hills report a median income of $113,491 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.7%. Lake in the Hills's housing stock carries a median value of $296,400, and the median resident age is 36.6 years. Educational attainment runs 36.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 69.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 19 residential building permits were authorized in Lake in the Hills (Low Activity), per Census BPS data. Lake in the Hills reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 507.5 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: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Illinois scores 100.0 (Near Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. 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. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 54.5 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Lake in the Hills'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 work and mobility to comparison shortlist to population change to reported crime to schools and households to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Lake in the Hills, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, matched public-school count, local building permits, commute-mode shares, 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.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Lake in the Hills?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 73.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Lake in the Hills?
Within Illinois, the closest population matches are Burbank (28,822 residents, $83,975 income); Danville (28,663 residents, $44,239 income); Lansing (28,415 residents, $71,805 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Greenville, MS (28,833 residents); Perry Hall, MD (28,908 residents); Golden Gate, FL (28,767 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.
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.
Is Lake in the Hills growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -337 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 19 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Lake in the Hills?
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.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 507.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 78% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Lake in the Hills?
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 36.7% 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.
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.
Matched public schools
4
Bachelor's degree+
36.7%
Poverty estimate
1.7%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Lake in the Hills?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
Household income
$113,491
Home value
$296,400
Value / income
2.6×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
B
City profile score · Lake in the Hills, IL
72/100
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.
Poverty rate A
1.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income A-
$113,491
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime B+
70 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B-
36.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; 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.
Lake in the Hills profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 88/100 (A) · 1.7%
Household income: 83/100 (A-) · $113,491
Violent crime: 78/100 (B+) · 70 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 69/100 (B-) · 36.7%
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Where Lake in the Hills sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Lake in the Hills'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 - Lake in the Hills highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Lake in the Hills, IL (this city): home $296,400, crime 508/100k
Converse, TX : home $240,100, crime 1,873/100k
Twentynine Palms, CA : home $238,400, crime 1,194/100k
Port Huron, MI : home $136,000, crime 2,106/100k
Burbank, IL : home $258,900, crime 2,163/100k
Danville, IL : home $76,800, crime 7,361/100k
Lansing, IL : home $168,500, crime 2,230/100k
Glen Ellyn, IL : home $522,600, crime 628/100k
Galesburg, IL : home $89,800, crime 3,478/100k
Huntley, IL : home $318,500, crime 457/100k
How does Lake in the Hills compare to other US cities?
Here's how Lake in the Hills stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income85% higher than other cities
Home value65% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety85% 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, Lake in the Hills ranks #108 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 Lake in the Hills 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 Lake in the Hills near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Lake in the Hills ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Lake in the Hills only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#131 of 1,311
90th percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#155 of 1,315
88th percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#1,143 of 1,335
13th percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#227 of 1,336
83rd 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
85th percentile nationally for median household income · 85th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Lake in the Hills's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Lake in the Hills'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 Lake in the Hills's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$296,40035th percentilemore affordable than 35% 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
Lake in the Hills's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,571 of 15,516
More affordable than 71% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#456 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.6×, Lake in the Hills sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,571 of 15,516 and #456 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
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
$113,491Lake in the Hills, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Lake in the Hills, 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 Lake in the Hills, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)36.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)69.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
28,853
Median Income
$113,491
Median Home Value
$296,400
Median Age
36.6
Poverty Rate
1.7%
Labor force participation
69.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
36.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
507.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
70.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
437.5
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
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Lake in the Hills's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
28,927 residents
2021
28,979 residents
2022
28,709 residents
2023
28,708 residents
2024
28,687 residents
2025
28,590 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Low Activity
Total Permits (2024)
19
housing units authorized
Single-Family
3
detached homes
Multifamily
16
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
0
0
0
-
2020
2
2
0
$0.5M
2021
1
1
0
$0.5M
2022
15
15
0
$6.3M
2023
2
2
0
$2.7M
2024
19
3
16
$6.5M
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
73.0%
Carpool
9.9%
Public Transit
0.6%
Walk
0.2%
Work from Home
15.7%
Other
0.6%
Based on 15,284 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 Lake in the Hills. 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 Lake in the Hills 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 Lake in the Hills sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Lake in the Hills 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.