60181Villa Park, Illinois

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 60181.

64out of 100
Area Score
Top 37% of 5,298 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity4549th of 6,210 ZIP areas measured44
SchoolsTop 41% of 4,422 ZIP areas measured58
Growth3414th of 5,428 ZIP areas measured42
Housing affordabilityTop 37% of 6,685 ZIP areas measured88
Climate5180th of 6,789 ZIP areas measured62
Physical resilienceTop 22% of 6,709 ZIP areas measured81
AccessTop 32% of 6,791 ZIP areas measured97
Economic stabilityTop 24% of 6,742 ZIP areas measured73
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published ZIP profiles: unemployment is 4.9% and the Opportunity signal places 60181 in the bottom 27%.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published ZIP profiles, placing 60181 in the top 22% for physical resilience.

A major airport is 8 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
30,346
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$92,142
Top 25% nationally
Density
4,663/sq mi
6.5 sq mi of land
Median age
36.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Villa Park
Illinois
Metro area
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
Nearest major airport
ORD
8 mi · Chicago O'Hare Intl
Median home value
$311,500
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.9% is lower than 31% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 3.0% over the past year, to 490,152 employed residents.

37% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 76% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$5,691$92,142Top 25%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,740$44,183Top 29%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate6.1%Bottom 26%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute28.9 minTop 44%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher37.0%Top 24%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment490,152Top 11%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-0.5%Bottom 42%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-3.0%Bottom 8%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force515,302Top 11%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation68.9%Top 18%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$73,380Top 30%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Median annual wage$54,720Top 33%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.7%Top 21%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate4.9%Top 31%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202492k81k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $92,142 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 Villa Park, IL, the city containing this ZIP code.

26% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 30% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 14.3 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
8
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
14.3
across all schools here
Math proficiency
25.8%
Top 44% in Illinois
Reading proficiency
29.6%
Top 45% in Illinois
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Willowbrook High SchoolDuPage HSD 881,98316.8
Jackson Middle SchoolSD 45 DuPage County62112.927%22%
North Elem SchoolSD 45 DuPage County43413.211%23%
Ardmore Elem SchoolSD 45 DuPage County42513.342%37%
Jefferson Middle SchoolSD 45 DuPage County37510.717%32%
District 45 Early Education CtrSD 45 DuPage County18917.2
John E Albright Middle SchoolSalt Creek SD 4818310.229%40%
Stella May Swartz Elem SchoolSalt Creek SD 4816715.235%40%

45.7% 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 →

Prices for everything a household buys run about 2% above the national average, on the Bureau of Economic Analysis index. Housing drives most of that difference.

Median rent of $1,654 takes 22% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.4 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
21.5%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.4×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,654
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$311,500
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living index102.5Top 41%of 6,0712023
Home price to income3.38Top 42%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate71.2%Bottom 32%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±45612,525Top 12%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$91$1,654Top 17%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$8,993$311,500Top 31%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income21.5%Top 27%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate8.7%Bottom 41%of 33,0282024 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
42/ 100
Ranks 3414 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.

67% of recently permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes, so new supply is concentrated in apartments and condominiums rather than detached houses.

At 0.7 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
15
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
0.7
Bottom 19% nationally
Year over year
+275%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
66.7%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Villa Park, 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 85°F and January a low of 19°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 37.9 inches, including 38.4 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 45, in the Good band, and no day in the year passed 100.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station CHICAGO OHARE INTL AP, 8.5 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.5"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index63.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation37.9"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall38.4"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low19°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high85°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index45.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing50°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
45
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
63
90th percentile index
Days above 100
0
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

81 / 100
Physical resilience

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

TornadoModerate
Heat waveModerate
EarthquakeModerate

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

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 — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

DuPage County records 1.4 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 3.9 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 6.9 per 100,000 residents in DuPage County.

Homicide
1.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
3.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
6.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
9.8
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 DuPage 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 60181 rather than 60181 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
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes and full cost of living
No public source publishes either with national coverage and a method open enough to check. 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. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 8 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Chicago O'Hare IntlORD8 mi11,245 ft
Gary/Chicago IntlGYY34 mi8,859 ft
South Bend IntlSBN86 mi8,412 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)
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023Annually, each December
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)
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)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
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.

60181 vs Villa Park

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

60181
Villa Park
Median household income
$92,142
vs
$95,015
Per capita income
$44,183
vs
$44,740
Population density
4,663/sq mi
vs
4,732/sq mi
Median home value
$311,500
vs
$329,000
Median gross rent
$1,654
vs
$1,438
Homeownership rate
71.2%
vs
75.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher
37.0%
vs
36.3%
Poverty rate
6.1%
vs
4.7%
Median age
36.7
vs
37.0

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.