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SheetIL-LINDENHURST-IL · Lindenhurst, IL 14,365 pop · income 90th 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 Lindenhurst
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Lindenhurst on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Bainbridge · lowest
41,531
Bainbridge · lowest
41,531 median HH income
25.3% of the leader · rank #1
Dumont · near
127,813
Dumont · near
127,813 median HH income
77.8% of the leader · rank #2
Greenwich CDP… · near
127,813
Greenwich CDP… · near
127,813 median HH income
77.8% of the leader · rank #3
Macopin · near
127,824
Macopin · near
127,824 median HH income
77.8% of the leader · rank #4
Lindenhurst · this city
127,837
Lindenhurst · this city
127,837 median HH income
77.8% of the leader · rank #5
Mapleton · near
127,860
Mapleton · near
127,860 median HH income
77.8% of the leader · rank #6
North New Hyd… · highest
164,340
North New Hyd… · highest
164,340 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 Lindenhurst 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: 14,365.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Lindenhurst - the verdict
Nationally, Lindenhurst sits in the 90th percentile for household income and the 96th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
90th
percentile, household income
61st
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
96th
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: Lindenhurst, IL
Illinois's Lindenhurst is a small town, with 14,365 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $127,837 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.3%. Lindenhurst's housing stock carries a median value of $275,400, and the median resident age is 37.1 years. About 44.1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 70.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 132 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Active). Lindenhurst reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 188.5 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures 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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,063 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Illinois's average monthly utility costs around $240 (state average). FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 54.5 out of 100 (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Lindenhurst'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 schools and households to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to housing and income to population change to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Lindenhurst, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, annual population history, commute-mode shares, 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.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Lindenhurst?
The NCES join finds 2 public schools within the city match. 44.1% 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 matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
Which cities make useful reference points for Lindenhurst?
Within Illinois, the closest population matches are Mount Vernon (14,492 residents, $52,751 income); Warrenville (14,232 residents, $99,028 income); Chicago Ridge (14,147 residents, $69,389 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Elizabethton, TN (14,364 residents); Moncks Corner, SC (14,362 residents); Dumas, TX (14,362 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 journey to work look like in Lindenhurst?
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.
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.
How far does income reach against housing in Lindenhurst?
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.3%, 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. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
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 Lindenhurst growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +434 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +3.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 132 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
+3.0%
2025 estimate
14,810
2020 estimate
14,376
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Lindenhurst?
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 188.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 92% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
153.6
Violent rate
34.9
Total reported rate
188.5
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 · Lindenhurst, 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.
Household income A
$127,837
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime A
35 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate A-
2.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B+
44.1%
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.
Lindenhurst profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 89/100 (A) · $127,837
Violent crime: 88/100 (A) · 35 /100k
Poverty rate: 84/100 (A-) · 2.3%
Bachelor's+ share: 79/100 (B+) · 44.1%
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Where Lindenhurst sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Lindenhurst'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 - Lindenhurst highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Lindenhurst, IL (this city): home $275,400, crime 189/100k
Elizabethton, TN : home $159,700, crime 1,708/100k
Moncks Corner, SC : home $312,800, crime 2,358/100k
Dumas, TX : home $151,400, crime 1,755/100k
Bainbridge, GA : home $150,600, crime 3,631/100k
Shepherdsville, KY : home $202,300, crime 1,927/100k
Mount Vernon, IL : home $89,700, crime 1,336/100k
Warrenville, IL : home $266,500, crime 741/100k
Chicago Ridge, IL : home $217,800, crime 2,079/100k
Swansea, IL : home $211,700, crime 785/100k
Shiloh, IL : home $276,900, crime 809/100k
Sterling, IL : home $107,800, crime 1,653/100k
How does Lindenhurst compare to other US cities?
Where Lindenhurst sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income90% higher than other cities
Home value61% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety96% 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, Lindenhurst ranks #38 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 Lindenhurst 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 Lindenhurst near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Lindenhurst ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Lindenhurst only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#88 of 1,311
93rd percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#189 of 1,315
86th percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#1,088 of 1,335
18th percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#149 of 1,336
89th 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
90th percentile nationally for median household income · 96th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Lindenhurst's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Lindenhurst'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 Lindenhurst's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$275,40039th percentilemore affordable than 39% 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
Lindenhurst's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#2,248 of 15,516
More affordable than 86% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#121 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.2×, Lindenhurst sits in the affordable band:
national rank #2,248 of 15,516 and #121 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
$127,837Lindenhurst, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Lindenhurst, 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 Lindenhurst, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)44.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)70.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
14,365
Median Income
$127,837
Median Home Value
$275,400
Median Age
37.1
Poverty Rate
2.3%
Labor force participation
70.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
44.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
188.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
34.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
153.6
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
2
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Lindenhurst's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
14,376 residents
2021
14,334 residents
2022
14,366 residents
2023
14,423 residents
2024
14,490 residents
2025
14,810 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Active
Total Permits (2024)
132
housing units authorized
Single-Family
32
detached homes
Multifamily
100
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
9.2
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
$0.3M
2021
39
39
0
$5.0M
2022
29
29
0
$3.8M
2023
23
23
0
$4.1M
2024
132
32
100
$17.9M
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
76.1%
Carpool
6.7%
Public Transit
1.5%
Walk
0.2%
Work from Home
14.6%
Other
0.9%
Based on 7,782 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 Lindenhurst. 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 Lindenhurst 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 Lindenhurst sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Lindenhurst 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.