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Place dossier plate
SheetIL-MORTON-GROVE-IL · Morton Grove, IL 24,687 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 Morton Grove
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Morton Grove on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Zanesville · lowest
39,085
Zanesville · lowest
39,085 median HH income
30.4% of the leader · rank #1
Hidden Valley · near
106,071
Hidden Valley · near
106,071 median HH income
82.5% of the leader · rank #2
Connoquenessi… · near
106,071
Connoquenessi… · near
106,071 median HH income
82.5% of the leader · rank #3
Dahlgren · near
106,071
Dahlgren · near
106,071 median HH income
82.5% of the leader · rank #4
Stallings · near
106,074
Stallings · near
106,074 median HH income
82.5% of the leader · rank #5
Morton Grove · this city
106,078
Morton Grove · this city
106,078 median HH income
82.5% of the leader · rank #6
Homer Glen · highest
128,546
Homer Glen · highest
128,546 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 Morton Grove 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: 24,687.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Morton Grove - the verdict
Morton Grove ranks in the 81st percentile for household income and the 57th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
81st
percentile, household income
75th
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
57th
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: Morton Grove, IL
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 24,687 residents in Morton Grove, a small city within Illinois. Households in Morton Grove report a median income of $106,078 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 7.4%. Morton Grove's housing stock carries a median value of $377,000, and the median resident age is 44.3 years. Educational attainment runs 52.1% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 60.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 53 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 279% from five years earlier. Morton Grove reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1181.6 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: 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). Commute times here average 24.0 minutes, with 67.4% driving alone and 15.6% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Morton Grove'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 work and mobility to housing and income to population change to schools and households to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Morton Grove, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, 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
What can the FBI record say about safety in Morton Grove?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1181.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 48% 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Morton Grove?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 67.4%. The reported mean trip to work is 24.0 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Morton Grove?
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 7.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Morton Grove?
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 Homer Glen (24,516 residents, $128,546 income); Melrose Park (24,513 residents, $64,740 income); Belvidere (24,510 residents, $62,462 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Paris, TX (24,678 residents); San Benito, TX (24,677 residents); Suitland, MD (24,667 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.
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 Morton Grove growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -625 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 53 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 downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
2020 estimate
25,207
2025 estimate
24,582
Period change
-2.5%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the education layer cover for Morton Grove?
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. 52.1% 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.
Poverty estimate
7.4%
Bachelor's degree+
52.1%
Matched public schools
5
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
B-
City profile score · Morton Grove, IL
68/100
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
52.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime A
46 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income A-
$106,078
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C-
7.4%
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.
Morton Grove profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 86/100 (A) · 52.1%
Violent crime: 85/100 (A) · 46 /100k
Household income: 80/100 (A-) · $106,078
Poverty rate: 50/100 (C-) · 7.4%
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Where Morton Grove sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Morton Grove'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 - Morton Grove highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Morton Grove, IL (this city): home $377,000, crime 1,182/100k
Paris, TX : home $128,300, crime 3,327/100k
San Benito, TX : home $85,100, crime 3,162/100k
Zanesville, OH : home $106,900, crime 3,174/100k
Homer Glen, IL : home $400,000, crime 293/100k
Melrose Park, IL : home $265,000, crime 2,075/100k
Belvidere, IL : home $153,100, crime 589/100k
Zion, IL : home $179,100, crime 1,446/100k
Westmont, IL : home $369,100, crime 1,106/100k
How does Morton Grove compare to other US cities?
Here's how Morton Grove stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income81% higher than other cities
Home value75% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety57% 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: Morton Grove ranks #271 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 Morton Grove 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 Morton Grove near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Morton Grove ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Morton Grove only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#180 of 1,311
86th percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#76 of 1,315
94th percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#652 of 1,335
50th percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#100 of 1,336
93rd 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 · 57th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Morton Grove's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Morton Grove'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 Morton Grove's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$377,00025th percentilemore affordable than 25% 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
Morton Grove'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
#9,192 of 15,516
More affordable than 41% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,548 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.6×, Morton Grove sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,192 of 15,516 and #1,548 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
$106,078Morton Grove, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Morton Grove, 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 Morton Grove, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)52.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)7.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
24,687
Median Income
$106,078
Median Home Value
$377,000
Median Age
44.3
Poverty Rate
7.4%
Labor force participation
60.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
52.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1181.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
46.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1135.3
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
Morton Grove's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
25,207 residents
2021
24,743 residents
2022
24,388 residents
2023
24,334 residents
2024
24,489 residents
2025
24,582 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
53
housing units authorized
Single-Family
53
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
14
14
0
$3.3M
2020
0
0
0
-
2021
1
1
0
$0.6M
2022
3
3
0
$1.3M
2023
2
2
0
$1.3M
2024
53
53
0
$16.6M
Permit volume increased 279% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
24.0 minutes
Drive Alone
67.4%
Carpool
9.9%
Public Transit
4.4%
Walk
1.4%
Work from Home
15.6%
Other
1.3%
Based on 11,876 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 Morton Grove. 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 Morton Grove 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 Morton Grove sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Morton Grove 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.