60110Carpentersville, Illinois

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 60110.

54out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 29% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity5105th of 6,210 published ZIP areas38
Schools3421st of 4,422 published ZIP areas30
Growth5383rd of 5,428 published ZIP areas7
Housing affordabilityTop 15% of 6,685 published ZIP areas98
Climate5694th of 6,789 published ZIP areas60
Physical resilienceTop 27% of 6,709 published ZIP areas77
Access4231st of 6,791 published ZIP areas89
Economic stabilityTop 18% of 6,742 published ZIP areas76
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published ZIP profiles: unemployment is 4.8% and the Opportunity signal places 60110 in the bottom 18%.

In the public schools here, 11% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 14.0 students for every teacher.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 19% of median household income and the median home is 2.7 times it.

At a glance

Population
38,558
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$87,906
Top 29% nationally
Density
4,604/sq mi
8.4 sq mi of land
Median age
33.8
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Carpentersville
Illinois
Metro area
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
Nearest major airport
ORD
22 mi · Chicago O'Hare Intl
Median home value
$233,700
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.8% is lower than 35% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 2.0% over the past year, to 18,581 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$8,540$87,906Top 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,887$31,785Bottom 33%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate9.9%Bottom 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute30.6 minTop 35%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher24.3%Top 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment18,581Bottom 17%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-2.9%Bottom 11%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-2.0%Bottom 19%June 2026
Labor force19,519Bottom 17%June 2026
Labor force participation74.1%Top 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$73,380Top 30%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$54,720Top 33%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.3%Top 40%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.8%Top 35%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202488k74k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $87,906 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand157,920$40,550
General and Operations Managers122,930$109,390
Home Health and Personal Care Aides108,520$38,180
Registered Nurses100,240$100,490
Cashiers99,240$35,010
Fast Food and Counter Workers97,280$34,630

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Carpentersville, IL, the city containing this ZIP code.

11% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 13% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 14.0 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
15
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
14.0
across all schools here
Math proficiency
11.1%
Bottom 22% in Illinois
Reading proficiency
13.3%
Bottom 17% in Illinois
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Dundee-Crown High SchoolCUSD 3002,57315.5
Carpentersville Middle SchoolCUSD 3001,14213.38%12%
Liberty Elementary SchoolCUSD 30074916.330%30%
Lakewood SchoolCUSD 30059015.98%7%
Parkview Elementary SchoolCUSD 30055214.56%19%
Meadowdale Elem SchoolCUSD 30042114.57%4%
Golfview Elem SchoolCUSD 30040112.97%4%
Perry Elementary SchoolCUSD 30027811.15%5%
Sunny Hill Elem SchoolBarrington CUSD 2202459.49%8%
Delacey Family Educ CtrCUSD 3002108.1
DREAM AcademyCUSD 3000
Success AcademyKane ROE0

76.7% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Illinois’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,398 takes 19% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.7 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
19.1%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.7×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,398
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$233,700
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income2.66Bottom 35%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate71.4%Bottom 32%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±52212,095Top 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$89$1,398Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$6,680$233,700Top 46%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income19.1%Top 40%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2.3%Bottom 10%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
7/ 100
Ranks 5383 of 5,428 published city profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

At 0.0 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
0
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
0.0
Bottom 1% nationally
Year over year
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Carpentersville, IL, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 84°F and January a low of 16°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 33.2 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 42, in the Good band, and one day a year passes 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station WEST CHICAGO DUPAGE AP, 14.0 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.3"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index63.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation33.2"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low16°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high84°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10012024 calendar year
Median air quality index42.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing50°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
42
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
63
90th percentile index
Days above 100
1
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

77 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are tornado, heat wave and lightning.

TornadoModerate
Heat waveModerate
LightningModerate

Low or minimal exposure: cold wave, inland flooding, earthquake, winter weather, strong wind, drought, ice storm, hail, landslide, wildfire, hurricane.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Kane County records 2.5 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 6.6 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 8.0 per 100,000 residents in Kane County.

Homicide
2.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
6.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
8.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
9.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Kane County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 60110 rather than 60110 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 22 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Chicago O'Hare IntlORD22 mi11,245 ft
Gary/Chicago IntlGYY57 mi8,859 ft
Dane County Rgnl/Truax FldMSN89 mi9,006 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

60110 vs Carpentersville

How this ZIP area compares with Carpentersville as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

60110
Carpentersville
Median household income
$87,906
vs
$86,917
Per capita income
$31,785
vs
$31,916
Population density
4,604/sq mi
vs
4,748/sq mi
Median home value
$233,700
vs
$234,100
Median gross rent
$1,398
vs
$1,414
Homeownership rate
71.4%
vs
71.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher
24.3%
vs
24.3%
Poverty rate
9.9%
vs
10.3%
Median age
33.8
vs
33.8

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.