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Place dossier plate
SheetIL-LAKE-VILLA-IL · Lake Villa, IL 8,707 pop · income 84th 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 Villa
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Lake Villa on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Rock Falls · lowest
48,733
Rock Falls · lowest
48,733 median HH income
19.5% of the leader · rank #1
Copake · near
111,089
Copake · near
111,089 median HH income
44.4% of the leader · rank #2
The Colony · near
111,090
The Colony · near
111,090 median HH income
44.4% of the leader · rank #3
Lake Villa · this city
111,110
Lake Villa · this city
111,110 median HH income
44.4% of the leader · rank #4
Menlo Park Te… · near
111,111
Menlo Park Te… · near
111,111 median HH income
44.4% of the leader · rank #5
Jamestown · near
111,111
Jamestown · near
111,111 median HH income
44.4% of the leader · rank #6
Glencoe · highest
250,001
Glencoe · highest
250,001 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 Villa 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: 8,707.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Lake Villa - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Lake Villa lands in the 84th percentile for household income and the 81st percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
84th
percentile, household income
69th
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
81st
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 Villa, IL
Illinois's Lake Villa is a small town, with 8,707 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Lake Villa brings in $111,110 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.9%. Typical homes in Lake Villa are valued around $325,900, and the median resident age is 40.3 years. About 48.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 62.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 5 residential building permits were authorized in Lake Villa (Rapid Growth), up 25% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Lake Villa reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 605.2 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 48.6°F with 37.8 inches of precipitation per year and 43.4 inches of snowfall.
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. 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 Lake Villa'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 comparison shortlist to schools and households to climate and hazard context to reported crime to population change to housing and income to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Lake Villa, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, commute-mode shares.
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
Which cities make useful reference points for Lake Villa?
Within Illinois, the closest population matches are Glencoe (8,715 residents, $250,000+ income); Rock Falls (8,683 residents, $48,733 income); Mascoutah (8,743 residents, $93,902 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are White Meadow Lake, NJ (8,706 residents); Shelby, OH (8,706 residents); Port Jervis, NY (8,709 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.
What does the education layer cover for Lake Villa?
The NCES join finds 6 public schools within the city match. 48.6% 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.
What physical conditions frame life in Lake Villa?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 48.6°F, with 37.8 inches of precipitation and 43.4 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Illinois is 54.5 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Lake Villa?
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 605.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 73% 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.
Population change
Is Lake Villa growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -36 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 5 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
-0.4%
2025 estimate
8,692
2020 estimate
8,728
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Lake Villa?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.9%, 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
$111,110
Home value
$325,900
Value / income
2.9×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in Lake Villa?
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 76.1%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
1.2%
Work from home
16.4%
Drive alone
76.1%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 4,355 workers age 16+.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
B
City profile score · Lake Villa, IL
70/100
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-
48.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A-
$111,110
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B+
2.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime B-
116 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
Lake Villa profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 83/100 (A-) · 48.6%
Household income: 82/100 (A-) · $111,110
Poverty rate: 79/100 (B+) · 2.9%
Violent crime: 67/100 (B-) · 116 /100k
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Where Lake Villa sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Lake Villa'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 Villa highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Lake Villa, IL (this city): home $325,900, crime 605/100k
Shelby, OH : home $117,300, crime 1,405/100k
Port Jervis, NY : home $220,700, crime 1,951/100k
Athol, MA : home $227,000, crime 1,184/100k
Millersville, PA : home $265,500, crime 480/100k
Wyoming, OH : home $404,500, crime 694/100k
Glencoe, IL : home $1,354,900, crime 625/100k
Rock Falls, IL : home $82,400, crime 3,569/100k
Mascoutah, IL : home $226,300, crime 390/100k
Clarendon Hills, IL : home $595,500, crime 434/100k
Glenwood, IL : home $182,900, crime 1,976/100k
Monmouth, IL : home $88,100, crime 1,738/100k
How does Lake Villa compare to other US cities?
Here's how Lake Villa stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income84% higher than other cities
Home value69% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety81% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Illinois and the picture shifts: Lake Villa ranks #138 of 455 Illinois cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Lake Villa 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 Villa near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Lake Villa ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Lake Villa only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#146 of 1,311
89th percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#114 of 1,315
91st percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#1,029 of 1,335
22nd percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#122 of 1,336
91st 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
84th percentile nationally for median household income · 81st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Lake Villa's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Lake Villa'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 Villa's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$325,90031st percentilemore affordable than 31% 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 Villa's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,327 of 15,516
More affordable than 59% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#5,394 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.9×, Lake Villa sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,327 of 15,516 and #5,394 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$111,110Lake Villa, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Lake Villa, 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 Villa, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)48.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,707
Median Income
$111,110
Median Home Value
$325,900
Median Age
40.3
Poverty Rate
2.9%
Labor force participation
62.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
48.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
605.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
116.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
488.8
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
48.6°F
Annual Precipitation
37.8"
Annual Snowfall
43.4"
Schools
Total Schools
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Lake Villa's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,728 residents
2021
8,705 residents
2022
8,678 residents
2023
8,681 residents
2024
8,699 residents
2025
8,692 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
5
housing units authorized
Single-Family
5
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
4
4
0
$1.0M
2020
2
2
0
$0.6M
2021
6
6
0
$1.6M
2022
4
4
0
$0.7M
2023
4
4
0
$0.8M
2024
5
5
0
$1.4M
Permit volume increased 25% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
76.1%
Carpool
4.7%
Public Transit
1.2%
Walk
0.3%
Work from Home
16.4%
Other
1.3%
Based on 4,355 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 Villa. 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 Villa 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 Villa sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Lake Villa 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.