Park CityIL
A town of 7,893, settled in 1958.
Is Park City a good place to live?
Park City gives you more for your money than most places: homes are within reach, about $287K for a typical one, or 3.2 years of the Chicago metro’s $91K median household income. It grades A− overall, 277th of 767 graded towns in Illinois. On the plus side, natural-hazard risk is low. On civic life, just 2 of Illinois’ 1,240 towns do worse. 10% of residents are 65 or older in Park City, below both Illinois’ towns (19%) and U.S. towns (18%). On history, just 12 of Illinois’ 1,285 towns do worse.
What makes Park City stand out
Where Park City beats most towns.
99% of working residents leave Park City for work
Where Park City’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Park City grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Park City is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Six Flags Great America and 127 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Park City. Close and well known come first.
Big draw2 mi Theme parkSix Flags Great America3.0M visitors a year
Big draw31 mi Stadium & arenaWrigley Field
Big draw37 mi Stadium & arenaSoldier Field
Big draw39 mi Stadium & arenaRate Field
Big draw35 mi Stadium & arenaUnited Center
24 mi Stadium & arenaAllstate ArenaPhoto credits
Six Flags Great America: Feather Better, CC BY 4.0 · Wrigley Field: Ryan Dickey, CC BY 2.0 · Soldier Field: Photo by Joon Han Contact: [email protected], CC BY-SA 3.0 · Rate Field: User Enoch Lai on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · United Center: User:JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Allstate Arena: Nkon21, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Moving to Park City: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Park City, 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 Park City.
Park City carries less natural-hazard risk than nearly all of Illinois (mostly inland flooding), is healthier than towns with similar incomes and has property taxes about half the Illinois norm.
Park City stands out in Illinois and nationally: the FEMA risk score there is lower
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk lower than 100% of Illinois towns; that rating is what its A+ for hazard risk is built on.
The FEMA risk score in Park City is 3 of 100. One flood insurance claim has been paid in Park City since 2017.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
A smaller share of working residents work locally in Park City than in most of Illinois or the rest of the country
Jobs based here grew from 888 in 2013 to 1,398.
0.7% of Park City working residents work locally. Jobs based in Park City grew to 1,398 in 2023, 510 more than in 2013. Park City’s median household income is $60,000.
| Park City | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 0.7% | 8.4% | 8% |
| Median household income | $60,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 25 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Park City is healthier than 66% of U.S. towns
Against the 8,957 U.S. towns with household incomes like Park City’s, it is healthier than 91%, so its B+ isn’t only a matter of income.
Park City beats the Illinois average on 7 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 10. 17% of adults have been diagnosed with depression in Park City. Among 767 Illinois towns, just 7 have a lower share of adults who had a checkup this year than Park City.
| Park City | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 22% | 23% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 73% | 78% | 79% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 35% | 35% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 13% | 14% |
| What stands out | Park City | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4.2% | 7.6% |
| Fewer adults with arthritis | 16.3% | 24.2% |
| More uninsured adults | 18.4% | 9.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Snowy winters and pleasant summers in Park City
Park City has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 82°, January nights drop to 16° and about 43 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Park City earns an A for cost of living
The median property tax bill is $199, against $5,298 across Illinois, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
Typical home values rose 6.7% in the year to September 2026.
| Park City | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 63% | 75% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,110 a month | $1,129 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
| Park City | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 1% | 3.7% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Betty Limbrunner Park | — | 6 |
| 2. Robert H. Allen Park | — | 2 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Park City
Colleges nearby
5 within 15 miles of the center of Park City
About 10 of every 100 Park City residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Illinois.
About Park City
City in Illinois, United States
Park City is a small city located in the Warren and Waukegan townships of Lake County, Illinois, United States, on the northern end of the Chicago metropolitan area. Per the 2020 census, the population was 7,885.
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- Established
- 1958
- Area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Elevation
- 712 ft
- Area code
- 847
Park City’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Park City.
It grades higher overall than all 3 graded towns on its borders; Warren Township (B+) comes closest.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Park City | #277 | A− | A | — | C | B+ |
| Waukegan · Waukegan Township | #639 | C− | C+ | C | C | C |
| Gurnee | #450 | B− | C− | C | B− | A |
| Warren Township | #362 | B+ | C− | — | B− | A |
Park City and Warren Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Waukegan Township and Waukegan are one community, graded once. Compare Park City with a neighbor →
Questions about Park City
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Park City, IL a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Park City grades A− overall, better than 76% of U.S. towns and #277 of 767 in Illinois. It grades B+ for health and C for schools.
Is Park City, IL expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A.