Side-by-side metrics and state or size-class ranks use the same Census and FBI fields shown on this profile. Results stay in the URL so you can bookmark or share them.
Place dossier plate
SheetIL-LEMONT-IL · Lemont, IL 17,643 pop · income 89th 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 Lemont
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Lemont on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Cahokia Heigh… · lowest
37,975
Cahokia Heigh… · lowest
37,975 median HH income
20.6% of the leader · rank #1
Dogtown · near
126,042
Dogtown · near
126,042 median HH income
68.5% of the leader · rank #2
Haddon Heights · near
126,055
Haddon Heights · near
126,055 median HH income
68.5% of the leader · rank #3
South Plainfi… · near
126,063
South Plainfi… · near
126,063 median HH income
68.5% of the leader · rank #4
Lemont · this city
126,100
Lemont · this city
126,100 median HH income
68.5% of the leader · rank #5
Granby · near
126,136
Granby · near
126,136 median HH income
68.6% of the leader · rank #6
Port Washingt… · highest
183,964
Port Washingt… · highest
183,964 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 Lemont 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: 17,643.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Lemont - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Lemont places in the 89th percentile for household income and the 82nd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
89th
percentile, household income
81st
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
82nd
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: Lemont, IL
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 17,643 residents in Lemont, a small town within Illinois. Median household income here is $126,100 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.5%. Home values in Lemont run a median of $447,800, and the median resident age is 43.7 years. 45.6% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 61.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 136 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Rapid Growth), up 42% from five years earlier. Lemont reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 576.9 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not 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 Lemont'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 housing and income to population change to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to schools and households to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Lemont, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, local building permits.
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. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Lemont?
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 3.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +710 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +4.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 136 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 upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Which cities make useful reference points for Lemont?
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 Godfrey (17,743 residents, $92,746 income); Jacksonville (17,490 residents, $62,615 income); Cary (17,875 residents, $109,790 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Greenfield, MA (17,662 residents); Norcross, GA (17,669 residents); Port Washington, NY (17,613 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Lemont?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 76.3%. 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. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
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 Lemont?
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 5 public schools within the city match. 45.6% 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.
Poverty estimate
1.5%
Bachelor's degree+
45.6%
Matched public schools
5
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Lemont?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 576.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 75% 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.
Total reported rate
576.9
Violent rate
34.3
Property rate
542.6
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
B+
City profile score · Lemont, IL
78/100
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.
Household income A
$126,100
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A
1.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime A
34 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share A-
45.6%
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.
Lemont profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 89/100 (A) · $126,100
Poverty rate: 89/100 (A) · 1.5%
Violent crime: 88/100 (A) · 34 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 80/100 (A-) · 45.6%
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Where Lemont sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Lemont'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 - Lemont highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Lemont, IL (this city): home $447,800, crime 577/100k
Greenfield, MA : home $252,000, crime 2,698/100k
Norcross, GA : home $375,900, crime 2,778/100k
Port Washington, NY : home $976,200, crime 935/100k
Jacksonville, IL : home $128,300, crime 2,406/100k
Cary, IL : home $287,000, crime 488/100k
Charleston, IL : home $133,700, crime 2,153/100k
Bourbonnais, IL : home $242,600, crime 821/100k
How does Lemont compare to other US cities?
Lemont measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income89% higher than other cities
Home value81% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety82% 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, Lemont ranks #126 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 Lemont 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 Lemont near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Lemont ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Lemont only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#94 of 1,311
93rd percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#54 of 1,315
96th percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#1,162 of 1,335
12th percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#138 of 1,336
90th 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
89th percentile nationally for median household income · 82nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Lemont's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Lemont'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 Lemont's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$447,80019th percentilemore affordable than 19% 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
Lemont's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,185 of 15,516
More affordable than 41% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,545 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.6×, Lemont sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,185 of 15,516 and #1,545 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
$126,100Lemont, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Lemont, 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 Lemont, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)45.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)61.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
17,643
Median Income
$126,100
Median Home Value
$447,800
Median Age
43.7
Poverty Rate
1.5%
Labor force participation
61.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
45.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
576.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
34.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
542.6
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
5
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Lemont's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
17,803 residents
2021
17,676 residents
2022
17,678 residents
2023
17,735 residents
2024
18,207 residents
2025
18,513 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
136
housing units authorized
Single-Family
136
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
7.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
96
63
33
$24.7M
2020
78
56
22
$20.6M
2021
103
92
11
$34.6M
2022
40
40
0
$15.1M
2023
145
108
37
$45.9M
2024
136
136
0
$44.4M
Permit volume increased 42% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
76.3%
Carpool
3.3%
Public Transit
2.7%
Walk
2.9%
Work from Home
14.4%
Based on 8,397 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 Lemont. 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 Lemont 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 Lemont sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Lemont 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.