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Bensenville is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades B overall, 446th among Illinois's 767 graded towns, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is incomes: the median household earns $80K. Expect to pay for it: the typical home is worth about $348K, 3.8 years of the Chicago metro’s $91K median household income. 12% of the land in Bensenville is conserved, against 3.6% in Illinois’ towns and 4.3% across U.S. towns. Bensenville is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns. The biggest park or preserve is Redmond Recreational Complex, at 72 acres.
Where Bensenville beats most towns.
Where Bensenville’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Bensenville is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 136 in 1880, 18,813 in 2020. The archive holds 22 old photos and papers going back to 1939 and 8 maps from 1891 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Bensenville. Close and well known come first.
Big draw15 mi Stadium & arenaWrigley Field
Big draw18 mi Stadium & arenaSoldier Field
4 mi Stadium & arenaAllstate Arena
Big draw22 mi MuseumBarack Obama Presidential Center
Big draw18 mi Stadium & arenaRate Field
Big draw15 mi Stadium & arenaUnited CenterWrigley Field: Ryan Dickey, CC BY 2.0 · Soldier Field: Photo by Joon Han Contact: [email protected], CC BY-SA 3.0 · Allstate Arena: Nkon21, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Barack Obama Presidential Center: AlphaBeta135, CC0 · Rate Field: User Enoch Lai on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · United Center: User:JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5
Who provides power, water and the rest in Bensenville, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.
Ordered by what stands out in Bensenville.
Bensenville draws workers from Chicago and beyond and is safe by national standards but not by Illinois’s; it also has a long record of flood insurance claims.
20,559 jobs are based in Bensenville, 2.5 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in.
Most working residents leave Bensenville for work: only 9% work in town. Jobs based in Bensenville grew to 20,559 in 2023, 1,124 more than in 2013. The top destinations are Chicago (16%), Elk Grove Village (5%) and Elmhurst (4%).
| Bensenville | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 14% | 11% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 7.6% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
1.4 miles of trail in 9 parks and preserves.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Deer Park | 0.4 mi | 13 |
| 2. Sunrise Park | 0.3 mi | 7 |
| 3. Breiter-Palm Park | 0.3 mi | 4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Bensenville has chilly, snowy winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 17° and about 38 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Bensenville beats the Illinois average on 2 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 6. 17% of Bensenville adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance, above both Illinois’ towns (7.9%) and U.S. towns (8.1%). 36% of adults feel lonely in Bensenville.
| Bensenville | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 7.9% | 8.1% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 22% | 23% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 36% | 33% | 33% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 13% | 14% |
| What stands out | Bensenville | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 6.5% | 7.6% |
| Fewer adults with arthritis | 21.1% | 24.2% |
| More uninsured adults | 16.5% | 9.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
51% of Bensenville households own their home. Typical home values rose 4.4% in the year to September 2026. The median rent in Bensenville is $1,407 a month.
| Bensenville | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 51% | 75% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,407 a month | $1,128 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
At 13.6 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports more crime than 52% of Illinois’s graded towns. Violent crime is rare: 9 reported in 2025, 0.5 per 1,000 residents.
Bensenville’s violent crime rate is 0.5 per 1,000 residents.
| Bensenville | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.5 per 1,000 residents | 1 | 1.6 |
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 9.3 per 1,000 residents | 7.9 | 9.9 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
110 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 16 properties have flooded more than once.
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 60% of U.S. communities. Since 1978, 110 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Bensenville.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
27 within 15 miles of the center of Bensenville
About 4 of every 100 Bensenville residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Illinois.
Village in Illinois, United States
Bensenville is a village located near O'Hare International Airport in DuPage County, Illinois, with a portion of the town in Cook County. As of the 2020 census, the village population was 18,813. First known as Tioga, it was formally established as Bensenville in 1873 along the Milwaukee Road (now Canadian Pacific) right-of-way. The community is named after Bensen, Germany, a village in the municipality of Sudwalde. A post office was established in 1873, but because there was an existing "Benson", the suffix "ville" was added. The Edge Ice Arena is located in Bensenville, former home of the Chicago Steel junior ice hockey team and practices for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey.…
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5 towns share a border with Bensenville.
Elk Grove Village next door grades higher for schools (A− to Bensenville’s B−) and lower for cost of living (D to C).
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bensenville | #446 | B | C | B | B− | B |
| Wood Dale | #405 | B | D | B | C+ | B+ |
| Elk Grove Village | #303 | B+ | D | B− | A− | A |
| Addison Township | #410 | B | C− | — | C+ | A− |
| Chicago | #676 | C− | C− | D | C | B+ |
| Franklin Park | #511 | C+ | C | B− | C+ | B |
Addison Township reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Bensenville with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Bensenville grades B overall, better than 55% of U.S. towns and #446 of 767 in Illinois. It grades B for health, B for safety and B− for schools.
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.
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