Ingalls ParkIL
Home to 3,015 people, this town lies in Illinois.
Is Ingalls Park a good place to live?
Where it falls short is schools: its public schools trail 85% of Illinois towns on state tests and graduation. Health is weaker too (C−): residents are less healthy than just over four fifths of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. Its strongest is walkability: it is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns. Homes run about $158K for a typical one, 1.7 times the Chicago metro’s $91K median household income. The overall grade comes out at D, better than just over a tenth of U.S. towns. In the ranking it comes 711th of 767 in Illinois. 22% of residents live below the poverty line in Ingalls Park, above both the Illinois town median (8.4%) and the median of U.S. towns (9.6%).
Figures: schools, state test and graduation results · health, CDC PLACES · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24.
What makes Ingalls Park stand out
Where Ingalls Park beats most towns.
99% of working residents leave Ingalls Park for work
Where Ingalls Park’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Ingalls Park grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Ingalls Park is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Ingalls Park: who provides what
Ingalls Park 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 Ingalls Park.
Ingalls Park has homes that are cheap against local pay and sends most of its workers to Joliet and beyond, but it has poverty well above the Illinois rate.
Ingalls Park stands out in Illinois and nationally, with more of its adults who get no exercise outside work
For adults 18 to 64 in Ingalls Park, the share who have no health insurance is 18%. Against the Illinois average, Ingalls Park comes out ahead on 1 CDC measures out of 32, and behind on 16. Among adults in the town, 24% worry about having enough food and 44% have obesity.
| Ingalls Park | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 7.9% | 8.1% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 23% | 25% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 13% | 14% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 44% | 37% | 35% |
| What stands out | Ingalls Park | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 5.8% | 7.6% |
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 19.9% | 10.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Compared with most of Illinois and the rest of the country, fewer of Ingalls Park’s working residents work locally
Ingalls Park has 45 jobs for its 1,503 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
The median household income in Ingalls Park is $58,000. Half of commuters travel less than 13 miles. The top destinations are Joliet (16%), Chicago (11%) and New Lenox (6%).
| Ingalls Park | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 22% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $58,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.6% | 8.4% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Ingalls Park, expect four seasons and pleasant summers
July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 17° and about 17 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The biggest natural risk in Ingalls Park is inland flooding, at a moderate overall level
Since 1982, one flood insurance claim has been paid in Ingalls Park. On expected storm and flood damage, Ingalls Park sits above 52% of U.S. communities. FEMA puts 44% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 30% to cold waves.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The median home in Ingalls Park sells for about $160K
At 1.7 years of the Chicago metro’s $91K median household income, the typical home costs less against local pay than in 88% of Illinois towns; that ratio is one input to its C+ for cost of living.
Ingalls Park’s median rent is $1,408 a month. Nearly two thirds of households live in a home they own locally.
| Ingalls Park | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 65% | 75% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,408 a month | $1,128 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Soldier Field and 144 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Ingalls Park. Close and well known come first.
Big draw32 mi Stadium & arenaSoldier Field
Big draw35 mi Stadium & arenaWrigley Field
Big draw30 mi MuseumBarack Obama Presidential Center
Big draw30 mi Stadium & arenaRate Field
Big draw31 mi Stadium & arenaUnited Center
Big draw33 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
_-_Chicago,_IL_-_June_2026.jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
Everything we know about Ingalls Park
Colleges nearby
3 within 15 miles of the center of Ingalls Park
About 3 of every 100 Ingalls Park residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Illinois.
About Ingalls Park
Place in Illinois, United States
Ingalls Park is an unincorporated community, census-designated place (CDP), and suburb of Joliet in Will County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, Ingalls Park had a population of 3,460. The town consists of a small neighborhood and a few businesses between Joliet's Pilcher Park and Interstate 80. It is the nearest town to Chicagoland Speedway, which hosted the NASCAR Cup Series from 2001 to 2019.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Elevation
- 627 ft
Ingalls Park’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Ingalls Park.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ingalls Park | #711 | D | C+ | — | C− | C− |
| Joliet | #667 | C− | C+ | C | C− | C+ |
| New Lenox | #87 | A | C− | B+ | A− | A |
Ingalls Park reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Ingalls Park with a neighbor →
Questions about Ingalls Park
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Ingalls Park, IL a good place to live?
Ingalls Park grades D overall, better than 11% of U.S. towns and #711 of 767 in Illinois. It grades C− for health and C− for schools. Schools is its weak spot, with a C−.
Is Ingalls Park, IL expensive?
The typical home is worth about $158,000, 47% 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 C+.