Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Leyden Township is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades C+ overall, 543rd of 767 graded towns in Illinois, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is incomes: the median household earns $80K. Expect to pay for it: the typical home is worth about $288K, 3.2 years of the Chicago metro’s $91K median household income. Leyden Township is more walkable than 94% of U.S. towns. Leyden Township's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 96% of U.S. towns. Jerome Huppert Woods Preserve, at 209 acres with 1.5 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve.
Where Leyden Township beats most towns.
Where Leyden Township’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 Leyden Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 81,814 in 1960, 93,906 in 2020. The archive holds 3 old photos and papers going back to 1880 and 7 maps from 1891 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Leyden Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw11 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 draw14 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 Leyden Township, 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 Leyden Township.
Leyden Township draws workers from Chicago and beyond, but it trails Norridge and its other neighbors on schools.
69,056 jobs are based in Leyden Township, 1.6 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in.
Most working residents leave Leyden Township for work: only 13% work in town. Leyden Township’s average trip to work is 29 minutes, where Illinois’ towns sit at 26 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes. Since 2013, Leyden Township has added 4,611 jobs, to 69,056 in 2023.
| Leyden Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 13% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Work from home | 9.9% | 11% | 11% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Each of its 7 graded neighbors has a higher School Grade than its C−, Norridge highest at A−.
Two of its 28 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mannheim Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 768 | C+ |
| East Leyden High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,840 | B− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IL on state tests and graduation
13 miles of trail in 37 parks and preserves. Leyden Township’s trail density is 0.6 miles per square mile, against 0.3 in Illinois’ towns and 0.4 across U.S. towns.
| Leyden Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.6 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 1.4% | 3.7% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Jerome Huppert Woods Preserve | 1.5 mi | 209 |
| 2. Robinson Woods Preserve | 1.4 mi | 200 |
| 3. Dunne Park | 0.6 mi | 9 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Leyden Township has chilly, snowy winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 17° and about 38 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Leyden Township beats the Illinois average on 3 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 8. 17% of adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance in Leyden Township.
| Leyden Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 7.9% | 8.1% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 13% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 35% | 35% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 18% | 16% |
| What stands out | Leyden Township | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 6.7% | 7.6% |
| Fewer adults with high blood pressure | 29.3% | 33% |
| More uninsured adults | 17.2% | 9.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 57% of U.S. communities. Since 1978, 960 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Leyden Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
47 within 15 miles of the center of Leyden Township
About 5 of every 100 Leyden Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Illinois.
Township in Illinois, United States
Leyden Township is one of 29 townships in Cook County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 93,096 and it contained 35,824 housing units.
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10 towns share a border with Leyden Township.
Maine Township next door grades higher for schools (A− to Leyden Township’s C−) and lower for cost of living (D to C).
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leyden Township | #543 | C+ | C | — | C− | B |
| Chicago | #676 | C− | C− | D | C | B+ |
| Rosemont | #471 | B− | C | D− | B+ | B+ |
| Schiller Park | #403 | B | C | — | C | A− |
| Franklin Park | #511 | C+ | C | B− | C+ | B |
| Norridge | #257 | A− | C− | — | A− | A− |
| Maine Township | #176 | A− | D | — | A− | A |
| Proviso Township | #512 | C+ | C | — | C | B+ |
Leyden Township, Schiller Park, Norridge, Maine Township and Proviso Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Leyden Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Leyden Township grades C+ overall, better than 38% of U.S. towns and #543 of 767 in Illinois. It grades B for health and C− for schools. Schools is its weak spot, with a C−.
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.
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