Libertyville, Illinois

Area Profile

20,525 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Libertyville, in Lake County.

71out of 100
Area Score
Top 17% of 2,944 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 34% of 3,904 published cities63
SchoolsTop 1% of 2,668 published cities95
Growth2764th of 2,973 published cities19
Housing affordabilityTop 11% of 4,223 published cities99
Climate3581st of 4,223 published cities60
Physical resilienceTop 23% of 4,182 published cities80
Access2249th of 4,226 published cities91
Economic stabilityTop 16% of 4,226 published cities76
The quick read

Residential permitting has slowed: 4 units authorized over the past twelve months, 94% below the prior year.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 12% of median household income and the median home is 3.1 times it.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published city profiles, placing Libertyville in the top 23% for physical resilience.

At a glance

Population
20,525
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$165,667
Top 3% nationally
Density
2,330/sq mi
8.8 sq mi of land
Median age
42.1
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Lake County
Illinois
Metro area
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
Nearest major airport
ORD
21 mi · Chicago O'Hare Intl
Median home value
$512,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.3% is lower than 51% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 0.8% over the past year, to 351,997 employed residents.

71% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 97% of measured US cities.

Household income is higher than at least 97% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$6,307$165,667Top 3%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$6,108$82,024Top 4%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate4.2%Bottom 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute27.9 minTop 43%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher71.0%Top 3%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment351,997Top 20%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-1.0%Bottom 31%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.8%Bottom 49%June 2026
Labor force367,783Top 20%June 2026
Labor force participation65.6%Top 32%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$73,380Top 36%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$54,720Top 39%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.2%Top 43%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.3%Bottom 49%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024166k154k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $165,667 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 publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Lake County, IL, which contains this city.

57% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 59% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 12.3 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
8
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
12.3
across all schools here
Math proficiency
56.5%
Top 3% in Illinois
Reading proficiency
59.1%
Top 4% in Illinois
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Libertyville High SchoolCHSD 1281,77713.6
Oak Grove Elem SchoolOak Grove SD 68 Green Oaks91112.163%58%
Highland Middle SchoolLibertyville SD 7070110.652%57%
Butterfield SchoolLibertyville SD 7056812.952%60%
Copeland Manor Elem SchoolLibertyville SD 7037811.861%61%
Rockland Elem SchoolLibertyville SD 7030511.752%69%
Adler Park SchoolLibertyville SD 7023811.354%51%
District 128 Transition Pthwys CtCHSD 1280

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 $1,637 takes 12% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.1 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
11.9%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.1×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,637
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$512,000
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income3.09Top 46%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate80.3%Top 41%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2327,925Top 8%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$123$1,637Top 17%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$27,432$512,000Top 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income11.9%Bottom 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate3.3%Bottom 21%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
19/ 100
Ranks 2764 of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is decreasing, measured from 2020 to 2025.

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.

Population has been broadly flat since 2020, at 20,643 in 2024.

Permitting has turned downward after moving the other way the year before.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 0.2 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
4
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
0.2
Bottom 13% nationally
Year over year
−94%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202421k20k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population.
Housing units permitted per year
202020212022202320242025875.0
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2020 (−77%).

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 81°F and January a low of 16°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 35.3 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 40, in the Good band, and about 7 days a year pass 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 CHICAGO WAUKEGAN RGNL AP, 10.4 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.5"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index67.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation35.3"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low16°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high81°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10072024 calendar year
Median air quality index40.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing48°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
40
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
67
90th percentile index
Days above 100
7
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

80 / 100
Physical resilience

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

TornadoModerate
Inland floodingModerate
LightningModerate
Heat waveModerate

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

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. 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.

Lake County records 2.3 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 5.2 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 8.6 per 100,000 residents in Lake County.

Homicide
2.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
5.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
8.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
7.2
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 Lake 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 Libertyville rather than Libertyville 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

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 21 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Chicago O'Hare IntlORD21 mi11,245 ft
Gary/Chicago IntlGYY54 mi8,859 ft
Dane County Rgnl/Truax FldMSN91 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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Other cities in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
ChicagoCook County2,711,22654vs Libertyville
AuroraKane County179,89864vs Libertyville
NapervilleDuPage County150,69271vs Libertyville
JolietWill County150,44559vs Libertyville
ElginKane County114,93457vs Libertyville
WaukeganLake County89,07658vs Libertyville
CiceroCook County82,79748vs Libertyville
SchaumburgCook County76,86861vs Libertyville
HammondLake County76,76858vs Libertyville
EvanstonCook County76,34063vs Libertyville
Arlington HeightsCook County76,00566vs Libertyville
BolingbrookWill County74,09664vs Libertyville

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

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.

ZIP codes in Libertyville

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
6004829,124$173,97571