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Place dossier plate
SheetIL-LISLE-IL · Lisle, IL 23,413 pop · income 81st 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 Lisle
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Lisle on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Brent · lowest
45,708
Brent · lowest
45,708 median HH income
38.3% of the leader · rank #1
Eaton · near
106,146
Eaton · near
106,146 median HH income
88.8% of the leader · rank #2
Nottingham · near
106,151
Nottingham · near
106,151 median HH income
88.8% of the leader · rank #3
Waipio · near
106,164
Waipio · near
106,164 median HH income
88.9% of the leader · rank #4
Lisle · this city
106,173
Lisle · this city
106,173 median HH income
88.9% of the leader · rank #5
Shelburne · near
106,187
Shelburne · near
106,187 median HH income
88.9% of the leader · rank #6
Cherry Hill · highest
119,474
Cherry Hill · highest
119,474 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 Lisle 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: 23,413.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Lisle - the verdict
Nationally, Lisle sits in the 81st percentile for household income and the 85th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
81st
percentile, household income
78th
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: Lisle, IL
23,413 people live in Lisle, Illinois - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Lisle brings in $106,173 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.3%. Lisle's housing stock carries a median value of $407,000, and the median resident age is 37.0 years. 62.4% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 68.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 11 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 27% from five years earlier. Lisle reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 498.4 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not 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. 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). Workers in Lisle report an average commute of 21.4 minutes, with 64.4% driving alone and 22.6% working from home. 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 Lisle'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 reported crime to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to schools and households to housing and income to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Lisle, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, local building permits, annual population history, 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 can the FBI record say about safety in Lisle?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 498.4 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.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Lisle?
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 Blue Island (23,416 residents, $60,965 income); Freeport (23,636 residents, $48,181 income); Loves Park (23,185 residents, $58,633 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Pottstown, PA (23,392 residents); Brent, FL (23,441 residents); Cherry Hill, VA (23,443 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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 64.4%. The reported mean trip to work is 21.4 minutes.
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.
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 4 public schools within the city match. 62.4% 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.
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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Lisle?
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 3.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.8×
Home value
$407,000
Household income
$106,173
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -230 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 11 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.
2020 estimate
23,662
2025 estimate
23,432
Period change
-1.0%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
B
City profile score · Lisle, IL
73/100
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+
62.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime A
43 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income A-
$106,173
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B
4.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better 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.
Lisle profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 93/100 (A+) · 62.4%
Violent crime: 86/100 (A) · 43 /100k
Household income: 80/100 (A-) · $106,173
Poverty rate: 70/100 (B) · 4.3%
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Where Lisle sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Lisle'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 - Lisle highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Lisle, IL (this city): home $407,000, crime 498/100k
Pottstown, PA : home $172,300, crime 3,842/100k
Champlin, MN : home $338,400, crime 1,252/100k
Glassboro, NJ : home $276,900, crime 1,230/100k
Blue Island, IL : home $169,800, crime 3,121/100k
Freeport, IL : home $86,100, crime 1,770/100k
Loves Park, IL : home $144,900, crime 1,737/100k
Rolling Meadows, IL : home $299,700, crime 1,374/100k
Elmwood Park, IL : home $325,000, crime 1,277/100k
How does Lisle compare to other US cities?
Where Lisle sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income81% higher than other cities
Home value78% 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.
Zoom in to just Illinois and the picture shifts: Lisle ranks #106 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 Lisle 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 Lisle near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Lisle ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Lisle only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#179 of 1,311
86th percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#64 of 1,315
95th percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#898 of 1,335
32nd percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#55 of 1,336
96th 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
81st percentile nationally for median household income · 85th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Lisle's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Lisle'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 Lisle's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$407,00022nd percentilemore affordable than 22% 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
Lisle's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,181 of 15,516
More affordable than 34% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,821 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.8×, Lisle sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,181 of 15,516 and #1,821 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
$106,173Lisle, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Lisle, 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 Lisle, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)62.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)68.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
23,413
Median Income
$106,173
Median Home Value
$407,000
Median Age
37.0
Poverty Rate
4.3%
Labor force participation
68.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
62.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
498.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
43.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
455.1
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
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Lisle's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
23,662 residents
2021
23,469 residents
2022
23,306 residents
2023
23,346 residents
2024
23,451 residents
2025
23,432 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
11
housing units authorized
Single-Family
11
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
15
7
8
$3.3M
2020
5
5
0
$1.9M
2021
3
3
0
$1.3M
2022
7
2
5
$2.9M
2023
6
4
2
$2.7M
2024
11
11
0
$7.6M
Permit volume decreased 27% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
21.4 minutes
Drive Alone
64.4%
Carpool
1.9%
Public Transit
7.0%
Walk
2.1%
Work from Home
22.6%
Other
2.0%
Based on 12,788 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 Lisle. 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 Lisle 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 Lisle sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Lisle 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.