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Place dossier plate
SheetIL-SCHAUMBURG-IL · Schaumburg, IL 76,780 pop · income 74th 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 Schaumburg
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Schaumburg on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Decatur · lowest
50,809
Decatur · lowest
50,809 median HH income
35.5% of the leader · rank #1
Schaumburg · this city
94,690
Schaumburg · this city
94,690 median HH income
66.2% of the leader · rank #2
Gladeville · near
94,693
Gladeville · near
94,693 median HH income
66.2% of the leader · rank #3
Center City · near
94,712
Center City · near
94,712 median HH income
66.2% of the leader · rank #4
Park · near
94,716
Park · near
94,716 median HH income
66.2% of the leader · rank #5
Alta · near
94,718
Alta · near
94,718 median HH income
66.2% of the leader · rank #6
Castle Rock · highest
143,031
Castle Rock · highest
143,031 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 Schaumburg 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: 76,780.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Schaumburg - the verdict
Schaumburg ranks in the 74th percentile for household income and the 23rd percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
74th
percentile, household income
67th
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
23rd
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: Schaumburg, IL
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 76,780 residents in Schaumburg, a small city within Illinois. Households in Schaumburg report a median income of $94,690 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 4.3%. Home values in Schaumburg run a median of $312,200, and the median resident age is 39.7 years. About 50.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 66.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 113 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 5550% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 2489.2 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, near 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). 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). Workers in Schaumburg report an average commute of 23.0 minutes, with 71.6% driving alone and 17.6% working from home. Natural-hazard exposure scores 54.5 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Schaumburg'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 housing and income to comparison shortlist to population change to work and mobility to reported crime to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Schaumburg, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits.
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. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Schaumburg?
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 3.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Schaumburg?
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 Evanston (76,552 residents, $95,766 income); Arlington Heights (76,220 residents, $118,532 income); Bloomington (78,703 residents, $75,449 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Rapid City, SD (76,836 residents); Wyoming, MI (76,865 residents); Alameda, CA (76,876 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.
Is Schaumburg growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -1,195 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 113 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Schaumburg?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 71.6%. The reported mean trip to work is 23.0 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.
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 Schaumburg?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2489.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 9% higher 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.
Total reported rate
2489.2
Violent rate
90.8
Property rate
2398.4
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the education layer cover for Schaumburg?
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 15 public schools within the city match. 50.6% 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
4.3%
Bachelor's degree+
50.6%
Matched public schools
15
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Above median income · poverty 4.3% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
100.0 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
B-
City profile score · Schaumburg, 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-
50.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B
$94,690
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime B
91 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
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.
Schaumburg profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 84/100 (A-) · 50.6%
Household income: 74/100 (B) · $94,690
Violent crime: 73/100 (B) · 91 /100k
Poverty rate: 70/100 (B) · 4.3%
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Where Schaumburg sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Schaumburg'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 - Schaumburg highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Schaumburg, IL (this city): home $312,200, crime 2,489/100k
Rapid City, SD : home $270,000, crime 4,511/100k
Wyoming, MI : home $203,900, crime 2,616/100k
Alameda, CA : home $1,203,900, crime 5,231/100k
Woodbury, MN : home $434,900, crime 1,279/100k
Castle Rock, CO : home $621,700, crime 974/100k
Bethlehem, PA : home $236,500, crime 1,575/100k
Evanston, IL : home $472,300, crime 2,884/100k
Arlington Heights, IL : home $403,200, crime 930/100k
Bolingbrook, IL : home $295,500, crime 961/100k
Decatur, IL : home $97,300, crime 3,470/100k
Cicero, IL : home $236,000, crime 1,581/100k
How does Schaumburg compare to other US cities?
Schaumburg measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income74% higher than other cities
Home value67% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety23% 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: Schaumburg ranks #395 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 Schaumburg 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 Schaumburg near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Schaumburg ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Schaumburg only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#263 of 1,311
80th percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#139 of 1,315
89th percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#898 of 1,335
32nd percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#108 of 1,336
92nd 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
74th percentile nationally for median household income · 23rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Schaumburg's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Schaumburg'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 Schaumburg's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$312,20033rd percentilemore affordable than 33% 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
Schaumburg's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,117 of 15,516
More affordable than 48% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#164 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.3×, Schaumburg sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,117 of 15,516 and #164 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
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
$94,690Schaumburg, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Schaumburg, 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 Schaumburg, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)50.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)66.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
76,780
Median Income
$94,690
Median Home Value
$312,200
Median Age
39.7
Poverty Rate
4.3%
Labor force participation
66.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
50.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2489.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
90.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2398.4
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
15
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Schaumburg's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
78,444 residents
2021
77,139 residents
2022
76,292 residents
2023
76,386 residents
2024
77,120 residents
2025
77,249 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
113
housing units authorized
Single-Family
93
detached homes
Multifamily
20
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
2
2
0
$0.7M
2020
48
2
46
$7.6M
2021
110
12
98
$19.1M
2022
119
56
63
$31.4M
2023
107
92
15
$31.4M
2024
113
93
20
$32.9M
Permit volume increased 5550% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
23.0 minutes
Drive Alone
71.6%
Carpool
5.2%
Public Transit
3.5%
Walk
0.8%
Work from Home
17.6%
Other
1.3%
Based on 39,637 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 Schaumburg. 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 Schaumburg 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 Schaumburg sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Schaumburg 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.