Crystal LawnsIL
Some 1,766 people live in this town, in Illinois.
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 home-ownership rate 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.
How TownRatings grades towns →
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.
With only 0.1 jobs per working resident, most people in Crystal Lawns work out of town
For Crystal Lawns, the mean commuting time is 28 minutes. This Illinois town had 92 jobs in 2023, down 30 from 2013. Half the trips to work are shorter than 17 miles. The top destinations are Chicago (14%), Joliet (13%) and Plainfield (5%).
| 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
Top of a high hazard risk in Crystal Lawns: inland flooding
The risk rating from FEMA for Crystal Lawns comes to 72 of 100, against 50 of 100 in Illinois’ towns and 44 of 100 across U.S. towns. Expected losses in Crystal Lawns break down as 63% from inland flooding and 18% from cold waves.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Crystal Lawns ranks healthier than two in three of the country’s towns
The share of adults in Crystal Lawns who have been diagnosed with depression is 20%, below both the Illinois town median (22%) and the median of U.S. towns (23%). In Crystal Lawns, 77% of 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
In Crystal Lawns, expect four seasons and pleasant summers
A winter brings about 17 inches of snow, with January nights at 16° and July afternoons at 84°.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Homes in Crystal Lawns sell for about $340K
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 a good place to live?
Some 1,766 people live in this town, in Illinois.
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+.