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Clarendon Hills is one of the best-graded places in America: an A+, 1st among Illinois's 767 graded towns. CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 98% of the country, its public schools beat 98% of Illinois towns on state tests and graduation, and the median household earns $130K. Its lowest mark, a C, is in cost of living. 72% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Clarendon Hills, above both the Illinois town median (29%) and the median of U.S. towns (29%). Clarendon Hills is more walkable than 97% of U.S. towns. Only 50 of Illinois’ 1,285 towns score higher on hazard risk.
Where Clarendon Hills beats most towns.
Where Clarendon Hills’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 Clarendon Hills is from typical.
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Census counts: 69 in 1880, 8,702 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 1939 and 8 maps from 1891 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Clarendon Hills. Close and well known come first.
Big draw18 mi Stadium & arenaSoldier Field
Big draw19 mi Stadium & arenaWrigley Field
Big draw19 mi MuseumBarack Obama Presidential Center
Big draw17 mi Stadium & arenaRate Field
Big draw16 mi Stadium & arenaUnited Center
Big draw18 mi MuseumArt Institute of Chicago1.5M visitors a yearSoldier 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
Who provides power, water and the rest in Clarendon Hills, 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 Clarendon Hills.
Clarendon Hills carries less natural-hazard risk than nearly all of Illinois (mostly inland flooding), reports less crime than Hinsdale or any other graded neighbor and has less no health insurance than most of Illinois.
At 7.5 years of the Chicago metro’s $91K median household income, the typical home (about $681K) costs more against local pay than in 96% of Illinois towns; that ratio is one input to its C for cost of living.
The typical Clarendon Hills home is worth about $681,000, up 7.7% in a year, more than twice the Illinois typical home. 84% of Clarendon Hills households own their home.
| Clarendon Hills | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 84% | 75% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,142 a month | $1,128 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
1.9 miles of trail in 6 parks and preserves. The trail density in Clarendon Hills is 1.1 miles per square mile. The biggest park or preserve is Prospect Park, at 24 acres.
| Clarendon Hills | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 1.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 4.1% | 3.6% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Prospect Park | 0.1 mi | 24 |
| 2. Hosek Park | 0.1 mi | 8 |
| 3. Park Avenue Park | — | 5 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Its widest gap with Illinois is no health insurance: 4.1% of those 18–64 have no health insurance, against 9.9% statewide.
15% of adults get no exercise outside work in Clarendon Hills. Clarendon Hills beats the Illinois average on 19 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 7.6% of adults smoke cigarettes in Clarendon Hills.
| Clarendon Hills | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 17% | 17% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 9.2% | 13% | 14% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 7.6% | 13% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 23% | 25% |
| What stands out | Clarendon Hills | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 4.1% | 9.9% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 6.8% | 15.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.1% | 7.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Its A tops all 3 graded towns on its borders; Hinsdale (A) comes closest. Violent crime is rare: 3 reported in 2025, 0.3 per 1,000 residents.
Clarendon Hills’ property crime rate is 4.5 per 1,000 residents.
| Clarendon Hills | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 4.5 per 1,000 residents | 7.9 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.3 per 1,000 residents | 1 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk lower than 95% of Illinois towns, with expected losses of about $253 per resident a year; that rating is what its A for hazard risk is built on.
Since 1979, 12 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Clarendon Hills.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
35.6% of workers work from home, against 15.9% across Illinois.
Most working residents leave Clarendon Hills for work: only 3% work in town. Since 2013, Clarendon Hills has added 231 jobs, to 1,642 in 2023. The top destinations are Chicago (27%), Westmont (4%) and Oak Brook (3%).
| Clarendon Hills | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $130,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.8% | 8.4% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Clarendon Hills has chilly, snowy winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 16° and about 42 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
21 within 15 miles of the center of Clarendon Hills
About 4 of every 100 Clarendon Hills residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Illinois.
3 notable people were born in Clarendon Hills.
Village in Illinois, United States
Clarendon Hills is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. The population was 8,702 at the 2020 census. It is a south-west suburb of Chicago.
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3 towns share a border with Clarendon Hills.
At #1 in IL, it grades higher overall than all 3 graded towns on its borders; Hinsdale (A+) comes closest.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clarendon Hills | #1 | A+ | C | A | A+ | A+ |
| Westmont | #148 | A | D | B | A | A |
| Willowbrook | #198 | A− | D | B− | A | A |
| Hinsdale | #5 | A+ | D | A | A+ | A+ |
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Yes, by almost any measure. Clarendon Hills grades A+ overall, among the top 2% of U.S. towns and #1 of 767 in Illinois. It grades A+ for health, A for safety and A+ for schools.
That is 7.5 years of the area's median household income ($90,887 across the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.
3 notable people were born here, including Bill Evans and Lee Pierce Butler.
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