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For most people who can afford it, yes. Hoffman Estates grades A− overall, 228th of 767 graded towns in Illinois. It is healthier than 93% of U.S. towns. The median household earns $107K. The catch is cost: the typical home is worth about $404K, 4.4 years of the Chicago metro’s $91K median household income. Hoffman Estates’ trail density is 1.7 miles per square mile, against 0.3 in Illinois’ towns and 0.4 across U.S. towns. Only 51 of Illinois’ 1,285 towns score higher on hazard risk. The biggest place to walk is Poplar Creek Forest Preserve, 2,817 acres with 3.8 miles of trail.
Where Hoffman Estates beats most towns.
5.7% of the town is conserved land, across 73 parks and preserves.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Hoffman Estates is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 8,296 in 1960, 52,530 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 1860 and 7 maps from 1923 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Hoffman Estates. Close and well known come first.
Big draw26 mi Stadium & arenaWrigley Field
Big draw31 mi Stadium & arenaSoldier Field
Big draw35 mi MuseumBarack Obama Presidential Center
14 mi Stadium & arenaAllstate Arena
Big draw31 mi Stadium & arenaRate Field
Big draw27 mi Stadium & arenaUnited CenterWrigley 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 · Allstate Arena: Nkon21, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Rate Field: User Enoch Lai on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · United Center: User:JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5
Who provides power, water and the rest in Hoffman Estates, 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 Hoffman Estates.
Hoffman Estates carries less natural-hazard risk than nearly all of Illinois (mostly cold waves) and is safe by national standards but not by Illinois’s; it also has lost a quarter or more of its jobs in ten years.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Paul Douglas Forest Preserve | 16.1 mi | 1,238 |
| 2. Poplar Creek Forest Preserve | 3.8 mi | 2,817 |
| 3. Village of Hoffman Estates Village Green | 0.8 mi | 13 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
25% of Hoffman Estates adults have obesity, where Illinois’ towns sit at 37% and U.S. towns at 35%. 27% of Hoffman Estates adults have high blood pressure. Hoffman Estates beats the Illinois average on 22 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 0.
| Hoffman Estates | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 37% | 35% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 35% | 35% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 17% | 17% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 10% | 13% | 14% |
| What stands out | Hoffman Estates | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults with obesity | 25.2% | 34% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 5.8% | 7.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk lower than 94% of Illinois towns, with expected losses of about $348 per resident a year; that rating is what its A for hazard risk is built on.
Hoffman Estates’ FEMA risk score is 17 of 100. Since 1979, 12 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Hoffman Estates.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The median property tax bill is $8,096, against $5,298 across Illinois, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
The median rent in Hoffman Estates is $1,734 a month. Typical home values rose 6.5% in the year to September 2026.
| Hoffman Estates | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,734 a month | $1,128 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 74% | 75% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Jobs based here fell from 25,315 in 2013 to 17,676.
Most working residents leave Hoffman Estates for work: only 5% work in town. Since 2013, Hoffman Estates has lost 7,639 jobs, to 17,676 in 2023. 18% of workers work from home in Hoffman Estates.
| Hoffman Estates | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 18% | 11% | 11% |
| Median household income | $107,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 4.7% | 8.4% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Hoffman Estates has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 15° and about 32 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
At 13.3 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports less crime than 50% of Illinois’s graded towns. Reported crimes fell from 529 to 366 over the last three FBI years, a drop beyond ordinary year-to-year swings.
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
7 within 15 miles of the center of Hoffman Estates
About 4 of every 100 Hoffman Estates residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Illinois.
7 notable people were born in Hoffman Estates.
Village in Illinois, United States
Hoffman Estates is a village mostly in Cook County, Illinois, United States with a very small portion in Kane County, Illinois. It is a suburb of Chicago. Per the 2020 census, the population was 52,530. The village previously served as the headquarters for Sears and is one of the American headquarters for Mori Seiki. Now Arena, home of the Windy City Bulls of the NBA G League, is located in the village. Between 2006 and 2009, the village hosted the Heartland International Tattoo, one of the largest music and dance festivals of its kind in the Midwest.
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8 towns share a border with Hoffman Estates.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hoffman Estates | #228 | A− | D | B | B+ | A |
| Schaumburg | #233 | A− | D | C+ | A | A+ |
| South Barrington | #41 | A+ | D | A− | A | A+ |
| Streamwood | #322 | B+ | C− | B+ | B− | A− |
| Inverness | #28 | A+ | D | A | A− | A+ |
| Barrington Township | #84 | A | D | — | A | A+ |
| Palatine Township | #203 | A− | D | — | A− | A+ |
| Barrington Hills | #77 | A | D− | A | A | A |
Barrington Township and Palatine Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Hoffman Estates with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
For most people who can afford it, yes. Hoffman Estates grades A− overall, better than 81% of U.S. towns and #228 of 767 in Illinois. It grades A for health, B for safety and B+ for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D.
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D.
7 notable people were born here, including Melissa Seidemann and Josh Kline.
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