Fox TownshipIL
A town of 1,674, settled in 1883.
Is Fox Township a good place to live?
Fox Township’s best subject grades are an A for incomes and an A− for schools and health; its weakest is a C− for cost of living. 1.5% of residents live below the poverty line in Fox Township, against 8.4% in Illinois’ towns and 9.6% across U.S. towns. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 75% of U.S. towns. The biggest place to walk is Millbrook South Forest Preserve, 301 acres with 1.9 miles of trail. Fox Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Fox Township stand out
Where Fox Township beats most towns.
99% of working residents leave Fox Township for work
Where Fox Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Fox Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Fox Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Fox Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Fox 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Fox Township.
Public schools in Fox Township beat 80% of Illinois districts
Its public schools are run by Newark CCSD 66. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Millbrook Junior High SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 5–8 | Grades 5–8 | 89 | A− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IL on state tests and graduation
Fox Township ranks healthier than 78% of the country’s towns
Fox Township beats the Illinois average on 11 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 20% of adults binge drink in Fox Township, where Illinois’ towns sit at 18% and U.S. towns at 16%. 19% of adults get no exercise outside work in Fox Township.
| Fox Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 18% | 16% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 23% | 25% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 18% | 19% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 13% | 14% |
| What stands out | Fox Township | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 9.8% | 15.9% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 8.9% | 13.2% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 8.8% | 7.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Fox Township’s workers commute out
Most working residents leave Fox Township for work: only 1% work in town. Fox Township’s median household income is $116,000. Since 2013, Fox Township has lost 42 jobs, to 144 in 2023.
| Fox Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $116,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.3% | 8.3% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Four seasons and pleasant summers in Fox Township
Fox Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 15° and about 25 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Low risk in Fox Township, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 66% of U.S. communities. One flood insurance claim has been paid in Fox Township since 2013.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Fewer young adults than Illinois overall
Adults 18 to 34 are 17% of residents (23% statewide); children under 18 are 26% of residents (22% statewide). 38% of Fox Township adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more. Fox Township has grown 2.5% since 2020, to 1,674 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate.
| Fox Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 38% | 29% | 29% |
| Aged 65 or older | 16% | 19% | 18% |
| Median age | 41.8 years | 40.7 years | 40.5 years |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
Somewhere between 27% and 55% women
The Census survey reached too few of Fox Township’s residents to say more: its margin here is ±14 points. Across Illinois, 50.6% of residents are women.
| Fox Township | IL | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 7.7% | 11.5% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 18.3% | 10.4% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 9.3% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 7.6% | 13.6% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 14% | 13.3% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 11.5% | 12.4% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 15.2% | 12.8% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 9.9% | 10% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 6.3% | 7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 2.3% | 9.5% | 10.4% |
| High school | 22.7% | 25.1% | 26% |
| Some college | 25.3% | 19.2% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 11.8% | 8.3% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 22.4% | 22.6% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 15.5% | 15.3% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,700, single groups can be off by several points
Fox Township has set aside 9.9% of its land for conservation
23 miles of trail in 6 parks and preserves. The trail density in Fox Township is 0.6 miles per square mile.
| Fox Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 9.9% | 3.7% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.6 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Silver Springs State Fish and Wildlife Area | 12.5 mi | 1,026 |
| 2. Millbrook South Forest Preserve | 1.9 mi | 301 |
| 3. Fox River Bluffs | 1.6 mi | 165 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Mazon Creek and 23 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Fox Township. Close and well known come first.
29 mi State parkStarved Rock State Park
29 mi MuseumMorton Arboretum
34 mi LandmarkSite A / Plot M Disposal Site
27 mi National forestMidewin National Tallgrass Prairie
26 mi TheatreEgyptian Theatre, DeKalbPhoto credits
Starved Rock State Park: Chris Light (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Morton Arboretum: Bruce Marlin, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Site A / Plot M Disposal Site: Eric Schmuttenmaer, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie: Alanscottwalker, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Egyptian Theatre, DeKalb: Andy McMurray, CC BY 2.5
Everything we know about Fox Township
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Fox Township; the nearest are
About 4 of every 100 Fox Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Illinois.
About Fox Township
Unincorporated community in Illinois, United States
Fox is an unincorporated community in Kendall County, in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is located between the Village of Millbrook and the City of Yorkville. The community was originally named Fox Station due to its relationship with the Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad. It served the local farming community by providing a school, grain elevator, feed mill, store and post office.
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- Elevation
- 663 ft
Fox Township’s neighbors
8 towns share a border with Fox Township.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fox Township | — | — | C− | — | A− | A− |
| Little Rock Township | #569 | C | C− | — | B− | B+ |
| Kendall Township | #308 | B+ | C− | — | A− | A− |
| Northville Township | #433 | B | C | — | B+ | B+ |
| Mission Township | #602 | C | B− | — | C | B |
| Millington | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Big Grove Township | — | — | B | — | A | A− |
| Sandwich | #175 | A− | B− | A | B | B |
Fox Township and Big Grove Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Fox Township, Little Rock Township, Kendall Township, Northville Township, Mission Township and Big Grove Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Millington isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Fox Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Fox Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Fox Township, IL expensive?
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.