Bloom TownshipIL
A city of 83,631, settled in 1850.
Is Bloom Township a good place to live?
Bloom Township is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades C− overall, 663rd among Illinois's 767 graded towns, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is cost of living: a typical home costs about $180K, 2 years of the Chicago metro’s $91K median household income. Its lowest everyday mark is in schools: its schools rank behind 79% of the state's. Bloom Township is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 90% of U.S. towns. Bloom Township’s average trip to work is 33 minutes, above both Illinois’ towns (26 minutes) and U.S. towns (25 minutes). The biggest park or preserve is Sauk Trail Forest Preserve, at 1,141 acres.
What makes Bloom Township stand out
Where Bloom Township beats most towns.
89% of working residents leave Bloom Township for work
Where Bloom Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Bloom Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Bloom Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Soldier Field and 144 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Bloom Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw24 mi Stadium & arenaSoldier Field
Big draw30 mi Stadium & arenaWrigley Field
Big draw19 mi MuseumBarack Obama Presidential Center
Big draw22 mi Stadium & arenaRate Field
Big draw26 mi Stadium & arenaUnited Center
Big draw25 mi MuseumArt Institute of Chicago1.5M visitors a yearPhoto credits
Soldier Field: Photo by Joon Han Contact: [email protected], CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wrigley Field: Ryan Dickey, CC BY 2.0 · 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 · Art Institute of Chicago: ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0
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Moving to Bloom Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Bloom Township, 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Bloom Township.
Conserved land covers 3.2% of Bloom Township
29 miles of trail in 52 parks and preserves. The trail density in Bloom Township is 0.6 miles per square mile.
| Bloom Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.6 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 3.2% | 3.7% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Lansing Woods | 4.4 mi | 1,068 |
| 2. Jurgensen Woods | 2.8 mi | 462 |
| 3. Plum Creek Forest Preserve | 2.7 mi | 1,035 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Bloom Township’s grade for schools is a C−
Two of its 51 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Heights Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 872 | C+ |
| Bloom High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,823 | C− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IL on state tests and graduation
Bloom Township has 0.6 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Most working residents leave Bloom Township for work: only 11% work in town. 18% of residents live below the poverty line in Bloom Township. Since 2013, Bloom Township has lost 4,031 jobs, to 19,448 in 2023.
| Bloom Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 18% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $74,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 11% | 8.3% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
On CDC estimates, Bloom Township is less healthy than 70% of U.S. towns
Bloom Township beats the Illinois average on 2 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 20. 30% of Bloom Township adults worry about having enough food.
| Bloom Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 13% | 14% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 42% | 35% | 36% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 11% | 12% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 33% | 33% |
| What stands out | Bloom Township | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 6% | 7.6% |
| Fewer binge drinkers | 15.7% | 17.8% |
| More adults facing a utility shut-off | 15.4% | 7.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Bloom Township has four seasons and pleasant summers
Bloom Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 17° and about 28 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Bloom Township faces a high natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 60% of U.S. communities. Since 1978, 238 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Bloom Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Everything we know about Bloom Township
Colleges nearby
11 within 15 miles of the center of Bloom Township
About 5 of every 100 Bloom Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Illinois.
About Bloom Township
Township in Illinois, United States
Bloom Township is one of 29 townships in Cook County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 86,018 and it contained 33,964 housing units.
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- Area
- 47 sq mi
- Elevation
- 630 ft
Bloom Township’s neighbors
10 towns share a border with Bloom Township.
Flossmoor next door grades higher for schools (B to Bloom Township’s C−) and lower for cost of living (D to C+).
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloom Township | #663 | C− | C+ | — | C− | C |
| Thornton Township | #693 | D | C+ | — | C− | C |
| Rich Township | #601 | C | C | — | C− | B |
| Thornton | — | — | B+ | C | D | A− |
| Steger | #649 | C− | B | C | D | C− |
| Homewood | #429 | B | C+ | C | B | A− |
| Flossmoor | #456 | B− | D | C | B | A |
| Lansing | #668 | C− | C+ | C− | C− | B− |
Thornton has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Bloom Township, Thornton Township and Rich Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Bloom Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Bloom Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Bloom Township, IL a good place to live?
Bloom Township grades C− overall, better than 18% of U.S. towns and #663 of 767 in Illinois. It grades C for health and C− for schools. Schools is its weak spot, with a C−.
Is Bloom Township, IL expensive?
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C+.