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Franklin Park is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades C+ overall, 511th among Illinois's 767 graded towns, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is incomes: the median household earns $77K. Expect to pay for it: the typical home is worth about $323K, 3.6 years of the Chicago metro’s $91K median household income. Franklin Park is more walkable than 94% of U.S. towns. On civic life, just 105 of Illinois’ 1,240 towns do worse.
Where Franklin Park beats most towns.
Where Franklin Park’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Franklin Park is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 483 in 1900, 18,467 in 2020. The archive holds 18 old photos and papers going back to 1922 and 7 maps from 1891 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Franklin Park. Close and well known come first.
Big draw12 mi Stadium & arenaWrigley Field
Big draw14 mi Stadium & arenaSoldier Field
Big draw18 mi MuseumBarack Obama Presidential Center
Big draw11 mi Stadium & arenaUnited Center
5 mi Stadium & arenaAllstate Arena
Big draw15 mi Stadium & arenaRate FieldWrigley Field: Ryan Dickey, CC BY 2.0 · Soldier Field: Photo by Joon Han Contact: [email protected], CC BY-SA 3.0 · Barack Obama Presidential Center: AlphaBeta135, CC0 · United Center: User:JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Allstate Arena: Nkon21, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Rate Field: User Enoch Lai on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Franklin Park, 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.
Ordered by what stands out in Franklin Park.
Franklin Park draws workers from Chicago and beyond, but it has a long record of flood insurance claims.
14,222 jobs are based in Franklin Park, 1.7 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in.
Among workers in Franklin Park, 7.4% work remotely from home, where Illinois’ towns sit at 11% and U.S. towns at 11%. Commuting out is the norm in the town: 7% of working residents work locally. The mean commuting time here is 29 minutes. Jobs in the town fell by 1,523 from 2013 to 2023, to 14,222.
| Franklin Park | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Work from home | 7.4% | 11% | 11% |
| Median household income | $77,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Summer afternoons peak near 84° in July, and January nights bottom out around 17°; snowfall runs to about 38 inches a winter. Winters in Franklin Park are chilly, snowy and summers warm.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Among adults in Franklin Park, 16% report frequent mental distress, below both the Illinois town median (17%) and the median of U.S. towns (17%). Against the Illinois average, Franklin Park comes out ahead on 3 CDC measures out of 32, and behind on 10. In Franklin Park, 18% of adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance.
| Franklin Park | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 7.9% | 8.1% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 13% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 35% | 35% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 75% | 78% | 79% |
| What stands out | Franklin Park | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 6.3% | 7.6% |
| Fewer adults with high blood pressure | 29% | 33% |
| More uninsured adults | 18.4% | 9.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
257 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 37 properties have flooded more than once.
Storm and flood damage is expected to run higher than in 58% of U.S. communities. Flood insurance has paid out on 257 claims in Franklin Park since 1978. 54% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by cold waves at 22%. Federal aid has come to Franklin Park households in 8 declared disasters; the latest was in 2024.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
A typical home in Franklin Park is worth about $323,000, up 7.6% in a year, 9% above the Illinois typical home. On the market in the town: a median 43 days to sell. In Franklin Park, 45% of sales closed above the list price.
| Franklin Park | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,109 a month | $1,129 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 75% | 75% | 73% |
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
The trail network density for Franklin Park comes to 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Franklin Park | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 1.2% | 3.7% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. North Park | 0.4 mi | 9 |
| 2. Gouin Park | — | 14 |
| 3. La Framboise Woods Preserve | — | 7 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Franklin Park’s property crime rate is 11.4 per 1,000 residents. For Franklin Park, the violent crime rate is 1.3 per 1,000 residents.
| Franklin Park | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 11.4 per 1,000 residents | 7.9 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 1.3 per 1,000 residents | 1 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
47 within 15 miles of the center of Franklin Park
About 5 of every 100 Franklin Park residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Illinois.
Village in Illinois, United States
Franklin Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 18,467 at the 2020 census, and was estimated at 18,110 in 2024. It was named for real estate broker Lesser Franklin who bought acres of the area when it was a majority of farming fields.
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7 towns share a border with Franklin Park.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Park | #511 | C+ | C | B− | C+ | B |
| Schiller Park | #403 | B | C | — | C | A− |
| Chicago | #676 | C− | C− | D | C | B+ |
| Leyden Township | #543 | C+ | C | — | C− | B |
| Northlake | #574 | C | C+ | B− | C− | B− |
| Melrose Park | #670 | C− | C | C | C− | C+ |
| River Grove | #475 | B− | C+ | B− | C | B+ |
| Bensenville | #446 | B | C | B | B− | B |
Schiller Park and Leyden Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Franklin Park with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Franklin Park grades C+ overall, better than 44% of U.S. towns and #511 of 767 in Illinois. It grades B for health, B− for safety and C+ for schools.
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.
2 notable people were born here, including Paul D. Froehlich and Bob Kruse.
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