Crystal LawnsIL
A town of 1,766.
Is Crystal Lawns a good place to live?
Crystal Lawns’ best subject grades are an A for incomes and walkability. No town among the 769 in Illinois we compare has a higher share of households owning their home than Crystal Lawns. Crystal Lawns's public schools beat 71% of Illinois towns on state tests and graduation. Among 769 Illinois towns, just 4 have a lower share of working residents who work in town than Crystal Lawns. On history, just 51 of Illinois’ 1,285 towns do worse. Crystal Lawns has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Crystal Lawns stand out
Where Crystal Lawns beats most towns.
100% of working residents leave Crystal Lawns for work
Where Crystal Lawns’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Crystal Lawns grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Crystal Lawns is from typical.
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Soldier Field and 146 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Crystal Lawns. Close and well known come first.
Big draw35 mi Stadium & arenaSoldier Field
Big draw37 mi Stadium & arenaWrigley Field
Big draw33 mi MuseumBarack Obama Presidential Center
Big draw33 mi Stadium & arenaRate Field
Big draw33 mi Stadium & arenaUnited Center
Big draw35 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 Crystal Lawns: who provides what
Crystal Lawns is unincorporated, so Will County and regional agencies provide most services.
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 Crystal Lawns.
Most of Crystal Lawns’ workers commute out: the town has 0.1 jobs for each of them
Most working residents leave Crystal Lawns for work: only 0% work in town. Jobs based in Crystal Lawns fell to 92 in 2023, 30 fewer than in 2013. At 28 minutes, Crystal Lawns’ average trip to work is near the Illinois town median (26 minutes) and above the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes).
| Crystal Lawns | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 7% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Inland flooding leads a high hazard risk in Crystal Lawns
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 72% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Crystal Lawns ranks healthier than 68% of the country’s towns
Crystal Lawns beats the Illinois average on 5 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 0. 20% of adults binge drink in Crystal Lawns, against 18% in Illinois’ towns and 16% across U.S. towns. 77% of Crystal Lawns adults had a checkup this year.
| Crystal Lawns | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 18% | 16% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 22% | 23% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 77% | 78% | 79% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 35% | 35% |
| What stands out | Crystal Lawns | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 11.5% | 15.9% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 10.3% | 13.2% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Four seasons and pleasant summers in Crystal Lawns
Crystal Lawns has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 16° and about 17 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Homes in Crystal Lawns sell for about $325K
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Crystal Lawns
Colleges nearby
5 within 15 miles of the center of Crystal Lawns
About 11 of every 100 Crystal Lawns residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Illinois.
About Crystal Lawns
Census designated place
Crystal Lawns is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Will County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,830 at the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Elevation
- 604 ft
Crystal Lawns’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Crystal Lawns.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal Lawns | — | — | C+ | — | B+ | B+ |
| Joliet | #667 | C− | C+ | C | C− | C+ |
| Crest Hill | #424 | B | C | B | B+ | B− |
Crystal Lawns has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Crystal Lawns reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Crystal Lawns with a neighbor →
Questions about Crystal Lawns
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Crystal Lawns, IL expensive?
The typical home is worth about $243,000, 18% below the Illinois typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C+.