Is Monee a good place to live?
Monee grades C+ overall, 540th among Illinois's 767 graded towns, with clear strengths and some subjects that lag. The median household earns $92K and natural-hazard risk is low. Its lowest everyday mark is in cost of living: homes are expensive, about $240K for a typical one and 2.6 times the Chicago metro’s $91K median household income. Monee’s average trip to work is 34 minutes, above both the Illinois town median (26 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). The biggest park or preserve is Thorn Creek Headwaters Preserve, at 32 acres.
What makes Monee stand out
Where Monee beats most towns.
How Monee grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Monee is from typical.
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Moving to Monee: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Monee, 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Monee.
Monee carries less natural-hazard risk than nearly all of Illinois (mostly inland flooding) and has seen reported crime fall by a third or more, but it trails even towns with similar incomes on health.
Monee faces a low natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk lower than 90% of Illinois towns, with expected losses of about $740 per resident a year; that rating is what its A− for hazard risk is built on.
The FEMA risk score in Monee is 20 of 100. One flood insurance claim has been paid in Monee since 1997.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
In Monee, expect four seasons and pleasant summers
Monee has chilly winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 16° and about 29 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
More middle-aged adults than Illinois overall
Adults 35 to 64 are 46% of residents (39% statewide); children under 18 are 17% of residents (22% statewide). 14% of Monee residents are 65 or older. 31% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 38% across Illinois.
| Monee | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aged 65 or older | 14% | 19% | 18% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 31% | 29% | 29% |
| Median age | 39.6 years | 40.7 years | 40.5 years |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±5.3 points. Across Illinois, 50.6% of residents are women. Among residents 25 to 34, 71% are men (IL 50%).
| Monee | IL | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 10% | 11.5% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 7.4% | 10.4% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 2.4% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 19.8% | 13.6% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 16.8% | 13.3% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 13.1% | 12.4% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 16.5% | 12.8% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 5.8% | 10% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 8.2% | 7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 12.7% | 9.5% | 10.4% |
| High school | 29% | 25.1% | 26% |
| Some college | 20.3% | 19.2% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 6.6% | 8.3% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 12.8% | 22.6% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 18.6% | 15.3% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
With 1.5 jobs for every working resident, Monee draws in 3,454 commuters
Jobs based here grew from 1,410 in 2013 to 3,552.
Most working residents leave Monee for work: only 4% work in town. Since 2013, Monee has added 2,142 jobs, to 3,552 in 2023. 6.2% of residents live below the poverty line in Monee.
| Monee | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 6.2% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 4.1% | 8.4% | 8% |
| Median household income | $92,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
More crime per resident in Monee than in 60% of U.S. towns
Reported crimes fell from 112 to 66 over the last three FBI years, a drop beyond ordinary year-to-year swings.
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Property crime per 1,000 residents
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Monee is less healthy than 59% of U.S. towns
Against the 9,724 U.S. towns with household incomes like Monee’s, it is less healthy than 76%, so it trails even them.
| What stands out | Monee | IL |
|---|---|---|
| More adults treating high blood pressure | 78.8% | 75.7% |
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 12.9% | 10.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Thorn Creek Headwaters Preserve | — | 32 |
| 2. Firemens Park | — | 6 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Homes in Monee sell for about $278K
The median property tax bill is $8,270, against $5,298 across Illinois, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
Monee’s median rent is $1,477 a month.
| Monee | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 93% | 75% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,477 a month | $1,128 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Soldier Field and 137 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Monee. Close and well known come first.
Big draw32 mi Stadium & arenaSoldier Field
Big draw37 mi Stadium & arenaWrigley Field
Big draw27 mi MuseumBarack Obama Presidential Center
Big draw29 mi Stadium & arenaRate Field
Big draw32 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
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Everything we know about Monee
Colleges nearby
4 within 15 miles of the center of Monee
About 7 of every 100 Monee residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Illinois.
About Monee
Village in Illinois, United States
Monee is a village in Will County, Illinois, United States, It is a south suburb of Chicago. The population was 5,128 at the 2020 census.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 4.4 sq mi
- Elevation
- 797 ft
- ZIP code
- 60449
Monee’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Monee.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monee | #540 | C+ | C | C+ | C+ | C+ |
| University Park | #705 | D | C | C | C | C |
Questions about Monee
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Monee, IL a good place to live?
Monee grades C+ overall, better than 39% of U.S. towns and #540 of 767 in Illinois. It grades C+ for health, C+ for safety and C+ for schools.
Is Monee, IL expensive?
The typical home is worth about $241,000, 19% 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.
What is Monee, IL known for?
2 notable people were born here, including Tony Zych and Albert Decatur Kniskern.