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Place dossier plate
SheetIL-ROMEOVILLE-IL · Romeoville, IL 40,996 pop · income 78th 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 Romeoville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Romeoville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
DeKalb · lowest
46,564
DeKalb · lowest
46,564 median HH income
35.7% of the leader · rank #1
Romeoville · this city
100,022
Romeoville · this city
100,022 median HH income
76.7% of the leader · rank #2
Vineyard · near
100,022
Vineyard · near
100,022 median HH income
76.7% of the leader · rank #3
Rockaway · near
100,028
Rockaway · near
100,028 median HH income
76.7% of the leader · rank #4
Westborough · near
100,037
Westborough · near
100,037 median HH income
76.7% of the leader · rank #5
Bourg · near
100,043
Bourg · near
100,043 median HH income
76.7% of the leader · rank #6
Bartlett · highest
130,479
Bartlett · highest
130,479 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 Romeoville 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: 40,996.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Romeoville - the verdict
Romeoville ranks in the 78th 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.
78th
percentile, household income
55th
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: Romeoville, IL
Romeoville is a small city in Illinois, home to 40,996 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Romeoville households earn a median of $100,022 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.9%. Home values in Romeoville run a median of $245,200, and the median resident age is 35.5 years. About 23.1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 69.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 1 residential building permits were authorized in Romeoville (Construction Slowdown), down 99% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Romeoville reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1163.2 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Romeoville's yearly average temperature at 50.9°F with 41.1 inches of precipitation per year and 33.2 inches of snowfall.
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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,063 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Illinois's average monthly utility costs around $240 (state average). The average commute for Romeoville workers runs 28.1 minutes, with 72.8% driving alone and 10.9% 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 Romeoville'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 climate and hazard context to schools and households to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to reported crime to population change to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Romeoville, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, matched public-school count, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, 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 physical conditions frame life in Romeoville?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 50.9°F, with 41.1 inches of precipitation and 33.2 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Illinois is 54.5 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
What does the education layer cover for Romeoville?
The NCES join finds 8 public schools within the city match. 23.1% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Romeoville?
Within Illinois, the closest population matches are Bartlett (40,531 residents, $130,479 income); DeKalb (40,464 residents, $46,564 income); Crystal Lake (40,436 residents, $105,428 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Maplewood, MN (40,981 residents); Reynoldsburg, OH (41,032 residents); Lynnwood, WA (40,953 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 Romeoville?
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 72.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 28.1 minutes.
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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Romeoville?
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 1163.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 49% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1012.0
Violent rate
151.2
Total reported rate
1163.2
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Is Romeoville 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 +472 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1 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
+1.2%
2025 estimate
41,281
2020 estimate
40,809
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Romeoville?
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.9%, 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.
Household income
$100,022
Home value
$245,200
Value / income
2.5×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
C+
City profile score · Romeoville, IL
60/100
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 B+
$100,022
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B
3.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime C
151 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share D
23.1%
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.
Romeoville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 77/100 (B+) · $100,022
Poverty rate: 72/100 (B) · 3.9%
Violent crime: 58/100 (C) · 151 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 43/100 (D) · 23.1%
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Where Romeoville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Romeoville'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 - Romeoville highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Romeoville, IL (this city): home $245,200, crime 1,163/100k
Maplewood, MN : home $291,300, crime 3,169/100k
Reynoldsburg, OH : home $230,300, crime 2,878/100k
Lynnwood, WA : home $635,800, crime 6,329/100k
Covington, KY : home $167,900, crime 1,923/100k
Lancaster, OH : home $180,200, crime 2,531/100k
Bartlett, IL : home $350,500, crime 419/100k
DeKalb, IL : home $202,900, crime 2,907/100k
Crystal Lake, IL : home $287,400, crime 1,208/100k
Belleville, IL : home $131,000, crime 2,344/100k
Moline, IL : home $141,900, crime 3,718/100k
Carol Stream, IL : home $308,700, crime 780/100k
How does Romeoville compare to other US cities?
Romeoville measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income78% higher than other cities
Home value55% 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.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Illinois alone, Romeoville ranks #269 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 Romeoville 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 Romeoville near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Romeoville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Romeoville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#221 of 1,311
83rd percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#236 of 1,315
82nd percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#939 of 1,335
29th percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#466 of 1,336
65th 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
78th percentile nationally for median household income · 57th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Romeoville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Romeoville'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 Romeoville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$245,20045th percentilemore affordable than 45% 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
Romeoville's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#3,752 of 15,516
More affordable than 76% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#325 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.5×, Romeoville sits in the affordable band:
national rank #3,752 of 15,516 and #325 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
$100,022Romeoville, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Romeoville, 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 Romeoville, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)23.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)69.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
40,996
Median Income
$100,022
Median Home Value
$245,200
Median Age
35.5
Poverty Rate
3.9%
Labor force participation
69.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
23.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1163.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
151.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1012.0
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
50.9°F
Annual Precipitation
41.1"
Annual Snowfall
33.2"
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
Romeoville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
40,809 residents
2021
41,920 residents
2022
41,164 residents
2023
41,330 residents
2024
41,450 residents
2025
41,281 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
1
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
135
25
110
$13.3M
2020
282
42
240
$44.4M
2021
9
9
0
$2.7M
2022
0
0
0
-
2023
1
1
0
$0.2M
2024
1
1
0
$0.4M
Permit volume decreased 99% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
28.1 minutes
Drive Alone
72.8%
Carpool
12.7%
Public Transit
2.0%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
10.9%
Other
0.7%
Based on 22,254 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 Romeoville. 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 Romeoville 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 Romeoville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Romeoville 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.