Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 1,915 in Illinois.
Merrionette Park’s best subject grades are an A− for walkability and the outdoors; its weakest is a D for hazard risk. Only 26 of Illinois’ 1,285 towns score lower on hazard risk. Merrionette Park's schools rank behind 74% of the state's. Only 9 of Illinois’ 1,240 towns score lower on civic life. Merrionette Park has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Merrionette Park beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
Where Merrionette 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 Merrionette Park is from typical.
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Census counts: 1,101 in 1950, 1,969 in 2020. The archive holds 1 old photo or paper going back to 2018 and 7 maps from 1892 on.
Explore the history →Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Merrionette Park. Close and well known come first.
Big draw13 mi Stadium & arenaSoldier Field
Big draw9 mi MuseumBarack Obama Presidential Center
Big draw19 mi Stadium & arenaWrigley Field
Big draw11 mi Stadium & arenaRate Field
Big draw14 mi Stadium & arenaUnited Center
Big draw14 mi MuseumArt Institute of Chicago1.5M visitors a yearSoldier Field: Photo by Joon Han Contact: [email protected], CC BY-SA 3.0 · Barack Obama Presidential Center: AlphaBeta135, CC0 · Wrigley Field: Ryan Dickey, CC BY 2.0 · 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
Who provides power, water and the rest in Merrionette 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 Merrionette Park.
Households in Merrionette Park have drawn federal disaster aid in 7 declared disasters, most recently in 2024. Of the losses FEMA expects in the town, 61% come from inland flooding and 21% from cold waves. Paid flood insurance claims here since 1979: 2.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The typical journey to work for Merrionette Park comes to 28 minutes, against 26 minutes in Illinois’ towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. Just 1% of the town’s working residents have a job in town. Employers in Merrionette Park shed 272 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 459. Its median household income stands at $57,000.
| Merrionette Park | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $57,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.3% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 8% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Values rose 5.4% in the 12 months to September 2026. The midpoint rent for Merrionette Park comes to $1,296 a month, above both the Illinois town median ($1,129 a month) and the median of U.S. towns ($1,185 a month).
| Merrionette Park | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,296 a month | $1,129 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 73% | 75% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Expect July afternoons of 84° and January nights of 18°, with about 39 inches of snow a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
For adults in Merrionette Park, the share who binge drink is 19%. A fifth of adults worry about having enough food in the town.
| Merrionette Park | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 13% | 14% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 18% | 16% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 35% | 33% | 33% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 7.9% | 8.1% |
| What stands out | Merrionette Park | IL |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 13.1% | 10.3% |
| More adults facing food insecurity | 20% | 15.9% |
| More adults facing housing insecurity | 16.5% | 13.2% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
41 within 15 miles of the center of Merrionette Park
About 1 of every 100 Merrionette Park residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Illinois.
Village in Illinois, United States
Merrionette Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,969 as of the 2020 census.
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2 towns share a border with Merrionette Park.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merrionette Park | — | — | C+ | — | C | B |
| Worth Township | #531 | C+ | C | — | C | B+ |
| Chicago | #676 | C− | C− | D | C | B+ |
Merrionette Park has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Merrionette Park and Worth Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Merrionette Park with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
That is 2.6 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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