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With 111,039 residents, this city was settled in 1833.
Trash day: look up yoursBloomingdale Township does the important things well, at a cost. Its best grade is for health: it is healthier than 85% of U.S. towns. The city grades A− overall and ranks 265th of 767 in Illinois. Set against the rest, it does better than 77% of U.S. towns. Schools are a strength too: its schools rank ahead of 74% of Illinois towns. The catch is cost of living (D): the typical home is worth about $434K, 4.8 years of the Chicago metro’s $91K median household income. Bloomingdale Township's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 93% of U.S. towns. Only 79 of Illinois’ 1,285 towns score higher on hazard risk.
Figures: health, CDC PLACES · schools, state test and graduation results · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · FEMA National Risk Index.
Where Bloomingdale Township beats most towns.
| Widest gap | Bloomingdale Township | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 6.3% | 7.8% |
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Bloomingdale Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 226 in 1880, a low of 226 in 1880, 22,382 in 2020. The archive holds 18 old photos and papers going back to 1957 and 7 maps from 1908 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Bloomingdale Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw22 mi Stadium & arenaWrigley Field
Big draw25 mi Stadium & arenaSoldier Field
Big draw28 mi MuseumBarack Obama Presidential Center
Big draw25 mi Stadium & arenaRate Field
11 mi Stadium & arenaAllstate Arena
Big draw22 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 · Barack Obama Presidential Center: AlphaBeta135, CC0 · Rate Field: User Enoch Lai on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Allstate Arena: Nkon21, CC BY-SA 4.0 · United Center: User:JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5
Who provides power, water and the rest in Bloomingdale 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.
Ordered by what stands out in Bloomingdale Township.
Bloomingdale Township carries less natural-hazard risk than nearly all of Illinois (mostly inland flooding) and trades workers with Chicago and other neighbors.
Count the trails in 76 parks and preserves and they come to 19 miles. The biggest place to walk is Mallard Lake Forest Preserve, 776 acres with 1.5 miles of trail. The density of trails for Bloomingdale Township comes to 0.5 miles per square mile.
| Bloomingdale Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 8.4% | 3.6% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.5 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. East Branch Forest Preserve | 2.7 mi | 505 |
| 2. Mallard Lake Forest Preserve | 1.5 mi | 776 |
| 3. Ross Ferraro Town Center | 1.2 mi | 17 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Of its 50 schools, three are listed below, each with the reason. Public school enrollment in Bloomingdale Township: 2,845 students across 6 schools.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marquardt Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 754 | B− |
| Lake Park High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 2,522 | A− |
| Roselle Middle SchoolTop results in townGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 230 | A+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IL on state tests and graduation
In Bloomingdale Township, the rent at the middle of the market is $1,617 a month, where Illinois’ towns sit at $1,128 a month and U.S. towns at $1,185 a month. Home values are up 4.4% over the year to September 2026. Homes sold in Bloomingdale Township spent a median 43 days on the market.
| Bloomingdale Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,617 a month | $1,128 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Renters paying 30%+ of income on rent | 46% | 46% | 48% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
18% of adults have been diagnosed with depression in Bloomingdale Township, below both the Illinois town median (22%) and the median of U.S. towns (23%). Among adults locally, 30% have obesity.
| Bloomingdale Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 22% | 23% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 37% | 35% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 17% | 17% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 13% | 14% |
| What stands out | Bloomingdale Township | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 6.3% | 7.8% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 11.2% | 13.2% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk lower than 91% of Illinois towns, with expected losses of about $333 per resident a year; that rating is what its A− for hazard risk is built on.
Bloomingdale Township’s FEMA risk score is 19 of 100. The national flood insurance program has paid 240 claims locally since 1978. Of the losses FEMA expects locally, 45% come from inland flooding and 23% from cold waves.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Summer afternoons peak near 84° in July, and January nights bottom out around 15°; snowfall runs to about 42 inches a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Bloomingdale Township has about as many jobs (56,676) as working residents, but only 7,821 people both live and work here.
For workers in Bloomingdale Township, the share who do their job from home is 15%. Just 14% of the town’s working residents have a job in town. Also worth knowing: the typical household income locally is $99,000. The top destinations are Chicago (14%), Schaumburg (5%) and Carol Stream (4%).
| Bloomingdale Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $99,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 14% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Work from home | 15% | 11% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 8% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Every broad age group is within 4 points of the Illinois average. In Bloomingdale Township, 37% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more.
| Bloomingdale Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 37% | 29% | 29% |
| Under 18 | 20% | 22% | 22% |
| Aged 65 or older | 17% | 19% | 18% |
51.2% women, 48.8% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across Illinois, 50.6% of residents are women. Median age: women 41.9, men 39.4.
| Bloomingdale Township | IL | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 10.4% | 11.5% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 10% | 10.4% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 9% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 12.7% | 13.6% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 15% | 13.3% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 12.4% | 12.4% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 13.4% | 12.8% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 10.2% | 10% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 6.9% | 7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 10.4% | 9.5% | 10.4% |
| High school | 25.7% | 25.1% | 26% |
| Some college | 19.2% | 19.2% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 8% | 8.3% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 25% | 22.6% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 11.8% | 15.3% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
18 within 15 miles of the center of Bloomingdale Township
About 6 of every 100 Bloomingdale Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Illinois.
Village in Illinois, United States
Bloomingdale is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States, settled in 1833, and 25 miles northwest of downtown Chicago. The population was 22,382 at the 2020 census.
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6 towns share a border with Bloomingdale Township.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloomingdale Township | #265 | A− | D | — | B+ | A− |
| Wayne Township | #394 | B | D | — | B− | A |
| Milton Township | #121 | A | D | — | A | A+ |
| Addison Township | #410 | B | C− | — | C+ | A− |
| Carol Stream | #147 | A | C− | A− | B+ | A |
| Schaumburg Township | #91 | A | D | — | A | A |
| Elk Grove Village | #303 | B+ | D | B− | A− | A |
Bloomingdale Township, Wayne Township, Milton Township, Addison Township and Schaumburg Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Bloomingdale Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Bloomingdale Township grades A− overall, better than 77% of U.S. towns and #265 of 767 in Illinois. It grades A− for health and B+ for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D.
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D.
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