Heritage LakeIL
A town of 1,522.
Is Heritage Lake a good place to live?
The best of Heritage Lake’s subject grades are an A− for incomes and health; the weakest is a D− for walkability. On walkability, just 32 of Illinois’ 1,284 towns do worse. Heritage Lake's schools outperform 70% of the state's. No town among the 769 in Illinois we compare has a higher owner-occupancy rate than Heritage Lake. On history, just 16 of Illinois’ 1,285 towns do worse. Heritage Lake has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Heritage Lake stand out
Where Heritage Lake beats most towns.
100% of working residents leave Heritage Lake for work
Where Heritage Lake’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Heritage Lake grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Heritage Lake is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Heritage Lake: who provides what
Heritage Lake is unincorporated, so Tazewell 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 Heritage Lake.
Heritage Lake ranks healthier than 77% of the country’s towns
In Heritage Lake, nearly a fifth of adults get no exercise outside work, and 9.6% have diabetes. A fifth of Heritage Lake adults binge drink, above both Illinois’ towns (18%) and U.S. towns (16%). Among adults here, 15% say their health is fair or poor.
| Heritage Lake | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 18% | 16% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 23% | 25% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 9.6% | 11% | 12% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 18% | 19% |
| What stands out | Heritage Lake | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5.7% | 9.9% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 10.2% | 15.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Heritage Lake stands out in Illinois and nationally, with fewer of its working residents who work locally
For half of commuters, work is under 17 miles away. Heritage Lake’s typical household income stands at $133,000, against $83,000 in Illinois’ towns and $80,000 across U.S. towns. In Heritage Lake, the average commute is 32 minutes. The top destinations are Peoria (19%), Mackinaw (11%) and Morton (10%).
| Heritage Lake | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $133,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 32 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.4% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 7.8% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Heritage Lake: four seasons and pleasant summers
The range runs from 17° on a January night to 85° on a July afternoon, with about 24 inches of snow a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Fewer adults under 35 in Heritage Lake than across Illinois
Adults 18 to 34 are 16% of residents (23% statewide); people 65 and older are 22% of residents (17% statewide). Here, just over a third of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree, against 38% in Illinois as a whole. The midpoint age for Heritage Lake comes to 42.1 years.
| Heritage Lake | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 34% | 29% | 29% |
| Median age | 42.1 years | 40.7 years | 40.5 years |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
39% women, 61% men
About 154 men for every 100 women (the survey’s margin: ±6.5 points). Across Illinois, 50.6% of residents are women.
| Heritage Lake | IL | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 7.4% | 11.5% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 16.6% | 10.4% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 8.1% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 7.7% | 13.6% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 13.9% | 13.3% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 15.2% | 12.4% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 9.3% | 12.8% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 13% | 10% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 8.8% | 7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 0% | 9.5% | 10.4% |
| High school | 26.5% | 25.1% | 26% |
| Some college | 22.8% | 19.2% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 16.9% | 8.3% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 25.9% | 22.6% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 7.7% | 15.3% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,500, single groups can be off by several points
The median home in Heritage Lake sells for about $273K
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Heritage Lake has a moderate natural-hazard risk, chiefly from inland flooding
Expected losses in Heritage Lake break down as 46% from inland flooding and 21% from cold waves. FEMA expects more storm and flood damage in the town than in 50% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Miller Park Zoo and 8 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Heritage Lake. Close and well known come first.
25 mi Zoo & aquariumWildlife Prairie Park17 mi Zoo & aquariumPeoria Zoo
2 mi Theme parkSpider Hill
17 mi MuseumAdlai E. Stevenson I House
17 mi MuseumMetamora Courthouse State Historic SitePhoto credits
Wildlife Prairie Park: Katherine Johnson, CC BY 2.0 · Spider Hill: NatFee, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Adlai E. Stevenson I House: Nyttend, Public domain · Metamora Courthouse State Historic Site: ProfDEH, Public domain
Everything we know about Heritage Lake
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Heritage Lake
About 6 of every 100 Heritage Lake residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Illinois.
About Heritage Lake
Census-designated place in Illinois, United States
Heritage Lake is a census-designated place in Tazewell County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, Heritage Lake had a population of 1,523.
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- Area
- 1.3 sq mi
- Elevation
- 748 ft
- Area code
- 618
Heritage Lake’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Heritage Lake.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heritage Lake | — | — | B− | — | B+ | A− |
| Mackinaw | — | — | B+ | A− | B+ | A− |
Heritage Lake and Mackinaw have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Heritage Lake reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Heritage Lake with a neighbor →
Questions about Heritage Lake
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Heritage Lake, IL expensive?
The typical home is worth about $207,000, 30% below 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 B−.