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Place dossier plate
SheetIL-PARK-RIDGE-IL · Park Ridge, IL 39,241 pop · income 92nd 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 Park Ridge
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Park Ridge on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Urbana · lowest
45,854
Urbana · lowest
45,854 median HH income
33.2% of the leader · rank #1
Chanhassen · near
138,034
Chanhassen · near
138,034 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #2
Vineyards · near
138,042
Vineyards · near
138,042 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #3
Park Ridge · this city
138,059
Park Ridge · this city
138,059 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #4
Castro Valley · near
138,069
Castro Valley · near
138,069 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
Santa Venetia · near
138,085
Santa Venetia · near
138,085 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
Hiddenite · highest
138,098
Hiddenite · highest
138,098 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 Park Ridge 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: 39,241.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Park Ridge - the verdict
Nationally, Park Ridge sits in the 92nd percentile for household income and the 66th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
92nd
percentile, household income
86th
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
66th
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: Park Ridge, IL
Illinois's Park Ridge is a small city, with 39,241 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Park Ridge report a median income of $138,059 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.1%. Typical homes in Park Ridge are valued around $539,300, and the median resident age is 44.5 years. 65.1% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 64.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 16 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Slowing), down 11% from five years earlier. Park Ridge reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 944.4 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: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Illinois at 100.0 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Near Average). 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. The average commute for Park Ridge workers runs 22.0 minutes, with 60.5% driving alone and 22.0% 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 Park Ridge'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 comparison shortlist to schools and households to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Park Ridge, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, annual population history, 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.
1. Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Park Ridge?
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 944.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 59% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
What does the journey to work look like in Park Ridge?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 60.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 22.0 minutes.
How far does income reach against housing in Park Ridge?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.1%, 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. 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Park Ridge?
Within Illinois, the closest population matches are Quincy (39,188 residents, $56,372 income); Carol Stream (39,427 residents, $105,395 income); Streamwood (39,055 residents, $101,049 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Greer, SC (39,191 residents); Bettendorf, IA (39,297 residents); Grants Pass, OR (39,183 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.
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 Park Ridge?
The NCES join finds 8 public schools within the city match. 65.1% 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 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.
Matched public schools
8
Bachelor's degree+
65.1%
Poverty estimate
2.1%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Is Park Ridge growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -1,049 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 16 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
-2.7%
2025 estimate
38,463
2020 estimate
39,512
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
B+
City profile score · Park Ridge, 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.
Bachelor's+ share A+
65.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A+
$138,059
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A
2.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime B
96 /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.
Park Ridge profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 95/100 (A+) · 65.1%
Household income: 93/100 (A+) · $138,059
Poverty rate: 85/100 (A) · 2.1%
Violent crime: 72/100 (B) · 96 /100k
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Where Park Ridge sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Park Ridge'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 - Park Ridge highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Park Ridge, IL (this city): home $539,300, crime 944/100k
Greer, SC : home $264,300, crime 2,072/100k
Bettendorf, IA : home $295,600, crime 972/100k
Grants Pass, OR : home $364,200, crime 3,308/100k
West Fargo, ND : home $302,200, crime 1,178/100k
Aventura, FL : home $416,300, crime 4,254/100k
Carol Stream, IL : home $308,700, crime 780/100k
Streamwood, IL : home $258,300, crime 835/100k
Wheeling, IL : home $244,600, crime 969/100k
Urbana, IL : home $186,300, crime 3,036/100k
Crystal Lake, IL : home $287,400, crime 1,208/100k
How does Park Ridge compare to other US cities?
Here's how Park Ridge stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income92% higher than other cities
Home value86% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety66% 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: Park Ridge ranks #229 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 Park Ridge 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 Park Ridge near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Park Ridge ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Park Ridge only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#67 of 1,311
95th percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#36 of 1,315
97th percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#1,110 of 1,335
16th percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#51 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
92nd percentile nationally for median household income · 66th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Park Ridge's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Park Ridge'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 Park Ridge's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$539,30014th percentilemore affordable than 14% 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
Park Ridge's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,420 of 15,516
More affordable than 33% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,904 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.9×, Park Ridge sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,420 of 15,516 and #1,904 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
$138,059Park Ridge, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Park Ridge, 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 Park Ridge, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)65.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
39,241
Median Income
$138,059
Median Home Value
$539,300
Median Age
44.5
Poverty Rate
2.1%
Labor force participation
64.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
65.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
944.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
96.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
848.1
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
8
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Park Ridge's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
39,512 residents
2021
38,834 residents
2022
38,331 residents
2023
38,248 residents
2024
38,500 residents
2025
38,463 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
16
housing units authorized
Single-Family
16
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
18
18
0
$10.1M
2020
20
20
0
$13.1M
2021
24
24
0
$16.4M
2022
8
8
0
$8.0M
2023
11
11
0
$11.3M
2024
16
16
0
$15.0M
Permit volume decreased 11% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
22.0 minutes
Drive Alone
60.5%
Carpool
5.3%
Public Transit
8.6%
Walk
2.0%
Work from Home
22.0%
Other
1.6%
Based on 19,359 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 Park Ridge. 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 Park Ridge 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 Park Ridge sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Park Ridge 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.