Hawthorn WoodsIL
Settled in 1958, this town now has 9,679 residents.
Is Hawthorn Woods a good place to live?
Much to like here, and you pay for it. Its best grade is for safety: it reports less crime per resident than 99% of U.S. towns. Health is a strength too: it is healthier than 98% of U.S. towns. What holds it back is cost of living — the typical home is worth about $752K, 8.3 years of the Chicago metro’s $91K median household income. The overall grade comes out at A+, 2nd of 767 in Illinois. Set against the rest, it does better than almost every U.S. town. 76% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Hawthorn Woods, where Illinois’ towns sit at 29% and U.S. towns at 29%. Only 86 of Illinois’ 1,285 towns score higher on hazard risk.
Figures: FBI crime data, 2025 · health, CDC PLACES · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · FEMA National Risk Index.
What makes Hawthorn Woods stand out
Where Hawthorn Woods beats most towns.
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
| Widest gap | Hawthorn Woods | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 6.6% | 15.9% |
Hawthorn Woods has grown 26% since 2010
7,663 counted in 2010 and 9,062 in 2020; an estimated 9,679 in 2025.
Growth hasn’t slowed: 6.6% since 2020, after 18.3% in the decade before.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
How Hawthorn Woods grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Hawthorn Woods is from typical.
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Wrigley Field and 149 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Hawthorn Woods. Close and well known come first.
Big draw29 mi Stadium & arenaWrigley Field
Big draw35 mi Stadium & arenaSoldier Field
Big draw11 mi Theme parkSix Flags Great America3.0M visitors a year
Big draw40 mi MuseumBarack Obama Presidential Center
Big draw36 mi Stadium & arenaRate Field
Big draw32 mi Stadium & arenaUnited CenterPhoto credits
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Moving to Hawthorn Woods: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Hawthorn Woods, 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 Hawthorn Woods.
Hawthorn Woods carries less natural-hazard risk than nearly all of Illinois (mostly inland flooding), reports less crime than Mundelein or any other graded neighbor and has less food insecurity than most of Illinois.
Hawthorn Woods stands out in Illinois and nationally: a larger share of its households own their home
At 8.3 years of the Chicago metro’s $91K median household income, the typical home (about $752K) costs more against local pay than in 97% of Illinois towns; that ratio is one input to its C for cost of living.
Homes sold in Hawthorn Woods spent a median 60 days on the market. Over the 12 months to September 2026, the typical home gained 6.5% in value. Bidding over the asking price: 25% of homes sold in the town.
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, property crime in Hawthorn Woods is lower
Its A+ tops all 3 graded towns on its borders; Mundelein (A−) comes closest. Violent crime is rare: 2 reported in 2025, 0.2 per 1,000 residents.
For Hawthorn Woods, the violent crime rate is 0.2 per 1,000 residents.
| Hawthorn Woods | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.5 per 1,000 residents | 7.9 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.2 per 1,000 residents | 1 | 1.6 |
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Property crime per 1,000 residents
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
For health, Hawthorn Woods earns an A+
Its widest gap with Illinois is food insecurity: 6.6% of its 6,637 adults worry about having enough food, against 15.9% statewide. Against the 727 U.S. towns with household incomes like Hawthorn Woods’s, it is healthier than 55%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
Hawthorn Woods: 6.6% of adults worry about having enough food. Among adults locally, 9% report frequent physical distress and 14% get no exercise outside work.
| Hawthorn Woods | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 17% | 17% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 9% | 13% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 23% | 25% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 33% | 33% |
| What stands out | Hawthorn Woods | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 6.6% | 15.9% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 4.2% | 9.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Very low risk in Hawthorn Woods, with inland flooding at the top
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk lower than 94% of Illinois towns, with expected losses of about $313 per resident a year; that rating is what its A− for hazard risk is built on.
Households in Hawthorn Woods have drawn federal disaster aid in 5 declared disasters, most recently in 2013. The FEMA hazard score locally is 17 of 100. 56% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by tornadoes at 20%. The town has had 2 paid flood insurance claims since 2013.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Most people working in Hawthorn Woods commute elsewhere
Hawthorn Woods has 886 jobs for its 4,396 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 39.5 minutes, against 27.8 across Illinois.
Since 2013, Hawthorn Woods has lost 148 jobs, to 886 in 2023. Most working residents leave Hawthorn Woods for work: only 1% work in town. The middle household income for Hawthorn Woods comes to $220,000. Among 768 Illinois towns, just 5 have a higher mean commuting time than Hawthorn Woods.
| Hawthorn Woods | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 40 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $220,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 25% | 11% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 0.6% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Hawthorn Woods, 3.7% of the land is conserved
1.9 miles of trail wind through 7 parks and preserves. The biggest park or preserve is Heritage Oaks Park, at 40 acres. Hawthorn Woods’ concentration of trails is 0.2 miles per square mile.
| Hawthorn Woods | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.2 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 3.7% | 3.6% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Bridlewoods Park | 0.6 mi | 11 |
| 2. Heritage Oaks Park | — | 40 |
| 3. Rambling Hills Park | — | 10 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
In Hawthorn Woods, expect snowy winters and pleasant summers
Expect July afternoons of 83° and January nights of 15°, with about 43 inches of snow a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Everything we know about Hawthorn Woods
Colleges nearby
7 within 15 miles of the center of Hawthorn Woods
About 3 of every 100 Hawthorn Woods residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Illinois.
99% of working residents leave Hawthorn Woods for work
Where Hawthorn Woods’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Hawthorn Woods
Village in Illinois, United States
Hawthorn Woods is a village in Fremont and Ela townships in Lake County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 9,062. The village is located approximately 40 miles (60 km) northwest of downtown Chicago. Hawthorn Woods was officially incorporated in 1958. Major transportation arteries include Midlothian Road, Old McHenry Road, Algonquin Road, Half Day Road, and the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway.
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- Established
- 1958
- Area
- 8.2 sq mi
Hawthorn Woods’s neighbors
7 towns share a border with Hawthorn Woods.
At #2 in IL, it grades higher overall than all 6 graded towns on its borders; Ela Township (A+) comes closest.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hawthorn Woods | #2 | A+ | C | A+ | A | A+ |
| Lake Zurich | #106 | A | D | B | A | A+ |
| Forest Lake | — | — | C− | — | A | A+ |
| Ela Township | #34 | A+ | D | — | A+ | A+ |
| Fremont Township | #173 | A− | C− | — | A− | A |
| Mundelein | #142 | A | C− | A− | B+ | A− |
| Kildeer | #59 | A | C− | A− | A+ | A+ |
| Long Grove | #44 | A+ | D | — | A+ | A+ |
Forest Lake has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Forest Lake, Ela Township, Fremont Township and Long Grove report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Hawthorn Woods with a neighbor →
Questions about Hawthorn Woods
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Hawthorn Woods, IL a good place to live?
Yes, by almost any measure. Hawthorn Woods grades A+ overall, among the top 2% of U.S. towns and #2 of 767 in Illinois. It grades A+ for health, A+ for safety and A for schools.
Is Hawthorn Woods, IL expensive?
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.