Frankfort SquareIL
A town of 9,560 in Illinois.
Is Frankfort Square a good place to live?
A good place to live, if you can afford it. Schools are its strong suit — its schools outperform 87% of the state's. What holds it back is cost of living: the typical home is worth about $306K, 3.4 years of the Chicago metro’s $91K median household income. Overall, that makes an A−, good for 255th of 767 in Illinois. It comes out better than 78% of U.S. towns. Only 14 of Illinois’ 1,285 towns score lower on history. 11% of the land in Frankfort Square is conserved, where Illinois’ towns sit at 3.6% and U.S. towns at 4.3%. The biggest park or preserve is Indian Boundary North Park, at 55 acres.
Figures: schools, state test and graduation results · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · National Register of Historic Places · USGS PAD-US · OpenStreetMap.
98% of working residents leave Frankfort Square for work
Where Frankfort Square’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Frankfort Square grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Frankfort Square is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Soldier Field and 151 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Frankfort Square. Close and well known come first.
Big draw25 mi Stadium & arenaSoldier Field
Big draw30 mi Stadium & arenaWrigley Field
Big draw21 mi MuseumBarack Obama Presidential Center
Big draw23 mi Stadium & arenaRate Field
Big draw26 mi Stadium & arenaUnited Center
Big draw26 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 Frankfort Square: who provides what
Frankfort Square 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 Frankfort Square.
Frankfort Square has less food insecurity than most of Illinois, sends most of its workers to Chicago and beyond and has household incomes well above the Illinois norm.
Frankfort Square is healthier than four in five U.S. towns
Its widest gap with Illinois is food insecurity: 9.4% of its 6,949 adults worry about having enough food, against 15.9% statewide. Against the 4,869 U.S. towns with household incomes like Frankfort Square’s, it is healthier than 52%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
Just over a fifth of adults binge drink in Frankfort Square. Against the Illinois average, Frankfort Square comes out ahead on 13 CDC measures out of 32, and behind on 1. Among adults here, 29% have high blood pressure and 8.6% have diabetes.
| Frankfort Square | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 18% | 16% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 35% | 35% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 8.6% | 11% | 12% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 13% | 14% |
| What stands out | Frankfort Square | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 9.4% | 15.9% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6.4% | 9.9% |
| More binge drinkers | 21.7% | 17.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Most of Frankfort Square’s workers leave town for work
Frankfort Square has 740 jobs for its 4,505 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. Jobs based here grew from 546 in 2013 to 740.
Frankfort Square had 740 jobs in 2023, up 194 from 2013. For most workers, Frankfort Square is a place to come home to: only 2% work in town. The median household income here is $127,000. The top destinations are Chicago (16%), Tinley Park (6%) and Mokena (5%).
| Frankfort Square | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $127,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.7% | 8.4% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 6.4% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Frankfort Square has four seasons and pleasant 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
Open space protected for good: 10.8% of Frankfort Square
There are 0.6 miles of trail across 9 parks and preserves. For Frankfort Square, the trail network density is 0.2 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Indian Boundary North Park | — | 55 |
| 2. Indian Boundary South Park | — | 40 |
| 3. Kiwanis Park | 0.2 mi | 9 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Moderate risk in Frankfort Square, with inland flooding at the top
One flood insurance claim has been paid in Frankfort Square since 2007. Storm and flood damage is expected to run lower than in three fifths of U.S. communities. Expected losses in Frankfort Square break down as 41% from inland flooding and 33% from cold waves.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Frankfort Square looks like Illinois by age
The median household earns $126,897, against $83,390 across Illinois, one input to its A− for jobs and income.
Illinois has 38% of adults 25 and older with a bachelor’s degree or more; here it is 33%. By age, Frankfort Square looks like Illinois: each broad group is within 4 points. The share of residents in Frankfort Square who are 65 or older: 16%.
| Frankfort Square | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aged 65 or older | 16% | 19% | 18% |
| Median age | 42.3 years | 40.7 years | 40.5 years |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 33% | 29% | 29% |
| Under 18 | 23% | 22% | 22% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±1.7 points. Across Illinois, 50.6% of residents are women.
| Frankfort Square | IL | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 10.6% | 11.5% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 12.7% | 10.4% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 9.4% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 10% | 13.6% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 12.2% | 13.3% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 13.8% | 12.4% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 15.7% | 12.8% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 12.2% | 10% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 3.3% | 7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 3.6% | 9.5% | 10.4% |
| High school | 25.9% | 25.1% | 26% |
| Some college | 25.6% | 19.2% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 12.1% | 8.3% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 20.8% | 22.6% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 12% | 15.3% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
A home in Frankfort Square sells for about $360K at the median
The midpoint rent for Frankfort Square comes to $1,622 a month. Frankfort Square: 95% of households live in a home they own. On the market here: a median 51 days to sell.
| Frankfort Square | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 95% | 75% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,622 a month | $1,128 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Frankfort Square
Colleges nearby
8 within 15 miles of the center of Frankfort Square
About 5 of every 100 Frankfort Square residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Illinois.
About Frankfort Square
Place in Illinois, United States
Frankfort Square is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Will County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 8,968.
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- Area
- 2.6 sq mi
- Elevation
- 709 ft
Frankfort Square’s neighbors
5 towns share a border with Frankfort Square.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frankfort Square | #255 | A− | C | — | A | A− |
| Frankfort | #65 | A | D | A− | A+ | A |
| Tinley Park | #210 | A− | C− | B | A− | A |
| Frankfort Township | #94 | A | C− | — | A | A |
| Matteson | #620 | C | C− | — | C− | B |
| Rich Township | #601 | C | C | — | C− | B |
Frankfort Square, Frankfort Township, Matteson and Rich Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Frankfort Square with a neighbor →
Questions about Frankfort Square
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Frankfort Square, IL a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Frankfort Square grades A− overall, better than 78% of U.S. towns and #255 of 767 in Illinois. It grades A− for health and A for schools.
Is Frankfort Square, IL expensive?
The typical home is worth about $306,000, 3% above 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.