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Place dossier plate
SheetIL-LIBERTYVILLE-IL · Libertyville, IL 20,493 pop · income 96th 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 Libertyville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Libertyville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Adrian · lowest
42,851
Adrian · lowest
42,851 median HH income
26.4% of the leader · rank #1
Lake Lotawana · near
162,188
Lake Lotawana · near
162,188 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #2
Barclay · near
162,241
Barclay · near
162,241 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #3
Libertyville · this city
162,270
Libertyville · this city
162,270 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #4
Oaks · near
162,308
Oaks · near
162,308 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
Sewickley Hil… · highest
162,361
Sewickley Hil… · highest
162,361 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
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 Libertyville 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: 20,493.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Libertyville - the verdict
Nationally, Libertyville sits in the 96th percentile for household income and the 80th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
96th
percentile, household income
85th
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: Libertyville, IL
Illinois's Libertyville is a small city, with 20,493 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $162,270 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.4%. Home values in Libertyville run a median of $499,300, and the median resident age is 41.9 years. 71.5% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 62.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 87 residential building permits were authorized in Libertyville (Building Boom), up 123% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Libertyville reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 617.1 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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,063 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Illinois run around $240, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. 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 Libertyville'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 housing and income to reported crime to population change to schools and households to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Libertyville, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, commute-mode shares, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count.
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. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Libertyville?
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 Frankfort (20,417 residents, $153,714 income); Grayslake (20,707 residents, $113,697 income); East Moline (20,837 residents, $63,328 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Adrian, MI (20,493 residents); South Burlington, VT (20,488 residents); North Bay Shore, NY (20,501 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Libertyville?
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 3.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Libertyville?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 617.1 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.
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 Libertyville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +140 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 87 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.
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 Libertyville?
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 7 public schools within the city match. 71.5% 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
1.4%
Bachelor's degree+
71.5%
Matched public schools
7
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What does the journey to work look like in Libertyville?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 64.0%. 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
64.0%
Work from home
25.9%
Public transit
3.1%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 9,708 workers age 16+.
Top-decile income · poverty 1.4% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
100.0 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
A-
City profile score · Libertyville, IL
81/100
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+
$162,270
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
71.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A+
1.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime B+
84 /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.
Libertyville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $162,270
Bachelor's+ share: 98/100 (A+) · 71.5%
Poverty rate: 90/100 (A+) · 1.4%
Violent crime: 75/100 (B+) · 84 /100k
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Where Libertyville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Libertyville'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 - Libertyville highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Libertyville, IL (this city): home $499,300, crime 617/100k
Adrian, MI : home $119,900, crime 2,968/100k
South Burlington, VT : home $399,600, crime 4,620/100k
Westbrook, ME : home $341,800, crime 1,330/100k
Golden, CO : home $790,500, crime 2,511/100k
Frankfort, IL : home $461,600, crime 701/100k
Grayslake, IL : home $293,900, crime 707/100k
East Moline, IL : home $135,300, crime 2,670/100k
Park Forest, IL : home $106,200, crime 1,791/100k
South Holland, IL : home $201,200, crime 2,452/100k
How does Libertyville compare to other US cities?
Here's how Libertyville stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income96% higher than other cities
Home value85% 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, Libertyville ranks #142 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 Libertyville 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 Libertyville near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Libertyville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Libertyville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#34 of 1,311
97th percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#43 of 1,315
97th percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#1,172 of 1,335
11th percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#32 of 1,336
98th 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
96th percentile nationally for median household income · 80th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Libertyville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Libertyville'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 Libertyville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$499,30015th percentilemore affordable than 15% 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
Libertyville's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,084 of 15,516
More affordable than 54% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,014 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.1×, Libertyville sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,084 of 15,516 and #1,014 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
$162,270Libertyville, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Libertyville, 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 Libertyville, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)71.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
20,493
Median Income
$162,270
Median Home Value
$499,300
Median Age
41.9
Poverty Rate
1.4%
Labor force participation
62.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
71.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
617.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
83.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
533.1
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
7
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Libertyville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
20,561 residents
2021
20,537 residents
2022
20,470 residents
2023
20,460 residents
2024
20,545 residents
2025
20,701 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
87
housing units authorized
Single-Family
53
detached homes
Multifamily
34
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
4.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
39
39
0
$20.1M
2020
22
22
0
$14.0M
2021
17
10
7
$8.5M
2022
9
9
0
$4.6M
2023
36
26
10
$16.4M
2024
87
53
34
$30.3M
Permit volume increased 123% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
64.0%
Carpool
4.5%
Public Transit
3.1%
Walk
1.5%
Work from Home
25.9%
Other
1.0%
Based on 9,708 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 Libertyville. 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 Libertyville 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 Libertyville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Libertyville 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.