DixmoorIL
A town of 2,951, laid out in 1922.
Is Dixmoor a good place to live?
Dixmoor grades D overall, 728th of 767 graded towns in Illinois, mostly because of schools and health. Its schools rank behind 92% of the state's. Residents are less healthy than 84% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. In its favor, it is more walkable than 97% of U.S. towns. 24% of residents live below the poverty line in Dixmoor, above both Illinois’ towns (8.4%) and U.S. towns (9.6%). Only 31 of Illinois’ 1,285 towns score lower on hazard risk. Dixmoor's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 100% of U.S. towns.
What makes Dixmoor stand out
Where Dixmoor beats most towns.
Dixmoor has shrunk 20% since 2010
3,644 counted in 2010 and 2,973 in 2020; an estimated 2,951 in 2025.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
How Dixmoor grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Dixmoor is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for walkability (better than 97% of comparable towns) to D for schools (better than 8%), so the D overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Soldier Field and 152 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Dixmoor. Close and well known come first.
Big draw16 mi Stadium & arenaSoldier Field
Big draw11 mi MuseumBarack Obama Presidential Center
Big draw22 mi Stadium & arenaWrigley Field
Big draw14 mi Stadium & arenaRate Field
Big draw17 mi Stadium & arenaUnited Center
Big draw17 mi MuseumArt Institute of Chicago1.5M visitors a yearPhoto credits
Soldier Field: Photo by Joon Han Contact: [email protected], CC BY-SA 3.0 · Barack Obama Presidential Center: AlphaBeta135, CC0 · Wrigley Field: Ryan Dickey, CC BY 2.0 · 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 Dixmoor: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Dixmoor, 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 Dixmoor.
Dixmoor is healthier than towns with similar incomes and has homes that are cheap against local pay, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Illinois (mostly inland flooding).
Dixmoor’s typical home value is about $126K
At 1.4 years of the Chicago metro’s $91K median household income, the typical home (about $126K) costs less against local pay than in 95% of Illinois towns; that ratio is one input to its B− for cost of living. 80.3% of renter households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, against 47.9% across Illinois.
The typical Dixmoor home is worth about $126,000, up 5.2% in a year, 57% below the Illinois typical home. 66% of households own their home in Dixmoor.
| Dixmoor | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 66% | 75% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,272 a month | $1,128 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Compared with most of Illinois and the rest of the country, more of Dixmoor’s adults worry about having enough food
Against the 3,859 U.S. towns with household incomes like Dixmoor’s, it is healthier than 54%, so its C− isn’t only a matter of income.
36% of Dixmoor adults worry about having enough food. Dixmoor beats the Illinois average on 2 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 23. 19% of Dixmoor adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance.
| Dixmoor | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 36% | 13% | 14% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 7.9% | 8.1% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 18% | 19% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 33% | 33% |
| What stands out | Dixmoor | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4.8% | 7.6% |
| Fewer binge drinkers | 15.8% | 17.8% |
| More adults facing food insecurity | 36.4% | 15.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Very high risk in Dixmoor, with inland flooding at the top
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 96% of Illinois towns, with expected losses of about $1,669 per resident a year; that rating is what its D for hazard risk is built on.
Dixmoor’s FEMA risk score is 86 of 100. Since 1987, 46 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Dixmoor.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Dixmoor’s workers commute out
Jobs based here fell from 757 in 2013 to 498.
Most working residents leave Dixmoor for work: only 2% work in town. The median household income in Dixmoor is $45,000. Since 2013, Dixmoor has lost 259 jobs, to 498 in 2023.
| Dixmoor | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $45,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.8% | 8.4% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 23 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Four seasons and pleasant summers in Dixmoor
Dixmoor 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
Dixmoor has set aside 0% of its land for conservation
Just 0 of its 796 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Dixmoor itself; its outdoors grade is C−.
0.1 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves. The biggest park or preserve is Kickapoo Woods, at 46 acres.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Kickapoo Woods | — | 46 |
| 2. Calumet Woods | — | 40 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Dixmoor
Colleges nearby
25 within 15 miles of the center of Dixmoor
About 6 of every 100 Dixmoor residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Illinois.
98% of working residents leave Dixmoor for work
Where Dixmoor’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Dixmoor
Village in Illinois, United States
Dixmoor (formerly Specialville) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, and a south suburb of Chicago. The population was 2,973 at the 2020 census. Dixmoor is adjacent to Harvey to the south and east, Posen to the west, and Blue Island and Riverdale to the north. Interstate 57 also runs through the village.
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- Established
- 1923
- Area
- 1.3 sq mi
- Area code
- 708
Dixmoor’s neighbors
6 towns share a border with Dixmoor.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dixmoor | #728 | D | B− | — | D | C− |
| Riverdale | #761 | D− | B− | — | D | D− |
| Harvey | #751 | D | B+ | D | D | D |
| Posen | #653 | C− | B− | C− | C | B− |
| Blue Island | #707 | D | B− | C− | C− | C+ |
| Thornton Township | #693 | D | C+ | — | C− | C |
| Bremen Township | #534 | C+ | C | — | C+ | B |
Dixmoor, Riverdale, Thornton Township and Bremen Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Dixmoor with a neighbor →
Questions about Dixmoor
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Dixmoor, IL a good place to live?
Dixmoor grades D overall, better than 8% of U.S. towns and #728 of 767 in Illinois. It grades C− for health and D for schools. Schools is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Dixmoor, IL expensive?
That is 1.4 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 B−.