Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
The best of Maple Park’s subject grades are an A+ for safety and an A− for health and incomes; the weakest is a C for cost of living. Maple Park’s average trip to work is 38 minutes, against 26 minutes in Illinois’ towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. Only 17 of Illinois’ 405 towns score higher on safety. Maple Park has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Maple Park beats most towns.
Where Maple Park’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 Maple Park is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 385 in 1880, 1,433 in 2020. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 1942 and 3 maps from 1937 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Maple Park. Close and well known come first.
38 mi Stadium & arenaAllstate Arena
38 mi MuseumMcDonald's #1 Store Museum
22 mi MuseumIllinois Railway Museum
28 mi MuseumMorton Arboretum
8 mi TheatreEgyptian Theatre, DeKalb
35 mi Stadium & arenaBMO CenterAllstate Arena: Nkon21, CC BY-SA 4.0 · McDonald's #1 Store Museum: Bruce Marlin, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Illinois Railway Museum: The original uploader was Slambo at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.0 · Morton Arboretum: Bruce Marlin, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Egyptian Theatre, DeKalb: Andy McMurray, CC BY 2.5 · BMO Center: SimLibrarian, CC0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Maple Park, 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 Maple Park.
The rate of thefts and burglaries in Maple Park is 2 per 1,000 residents. No violent crime was reported here.
| Maple Park | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 2 per 1,000 residents | 7.9 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0 per 1,000 residents | 1 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
The share of adults in Maple Park who have high blood pressure: 29%. Of 32 CDC measures, Maple Park beats the Illinois average on 14 and trails it on 2.
| Maple Park | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 18% | 16% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 35% | 35% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 23% | 25% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 9.1% | 11% | 12% |
| What stands out | Maple Park | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 9.7% | 15.9% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6.6% | 9.9% |
| More binge drinkers | 21.3% | 17.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Maple Park’s midpoint rent stands at $1,728 a month, above both the Illinois town median ($1,129 a month) and the median of U.S. towns ($1,185 a month). In the year to September 2026, typical home values climbed 4.5%.
| Maple Park | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,728 a month | $1,129 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 75% | 75% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Half the trips to work are shorter than 18 miles. Since 2013, Maple Park has added 26 jobs, to 147 in 2023. For Maple Park, the median household income is $107,000. The top destinations are DeKalb (8%), Sycamore (5%) and St. Charles (5%).
| Maple Park | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $107,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.3% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Work from home | 15% | 11% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 7% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Federal disaster aid has reached households in Maple Park after 3 declared disasters, most recently in 2013. FEMA expects less storm and flood damage here than in 74% of U.S. communities. Expected losses in Maple Park break down as 42% from inland flooding and 32% from cold waves.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
A winter brings about 39 inches of snow, with January nights at 14° and July afternoons at 83°.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
For residents in Maple Park, the share who are 65 or older is 15%. The age mix tracks Illinois closely: no broad group is more than 4 points off. This Illinois town has grown 6.5% since 2020, to 1,523 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate. Here, nearly a third of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree, against 38% in Illinois as a whole.
| Maple Park | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aged 65 or older | 15% | 19% | 18% |
| Under 18 | 24% | 22% | 22% |
| Median age | 38.3 years | 40.7 years | 40.5 years |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 32% | 29% | 29% |
Somewhere between 35% and 59% women
The Census survey reached too few of Maple Park’s residents to say more: its margin here is ±11.7 points. Across Illinois, 50.6% of residents are women.
| Maple Park | IL | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 10% | 11.5% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 14.2% | 10.4% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 9.2% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 13.7% | 13.6% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 11.2% | 13.3% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 9.7% | 12.4% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 16.7% | 12.8% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 12.2% | 10% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 3.1% | 7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 2.6% | 9.5% | 10.4% |
| High school | 28.4% | 25.1% | 26% |
| Some college | 19.4% | 19.2% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 17.9% | 8.3% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 21.1% | 22.6% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 10.7% | 15.3% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,500, single groups can be off by several points
For Maple Park, the density of trails is 0.1 miles per square mile. Across 1 park or preserve: 0.3 miles of trail. This Illinois town has one park or preserve, 4 acres in all.
| Maple Park | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.3% | 3.7% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. McAdams Park | — | 4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
3 within 15 miles of the center of Maple Park
About 6 of every 100 Maple Park residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Illinois.
Village in Illinois, United States
Maple Park is a village in DeKalb and Kane counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. The population was 1,433 at the 2020 census, up from 1,310 at the 2010 census. Maple Park was formerly known as Lodi.
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Short answers, built from the data on this page.
That is 4.5 years of the area's median household income ($90,887 across the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area). 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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