Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
For most people who can afford it, yes. Plainfield Township grades B overall, 369th of 767 graded towns in Illinois. The median household earns $127K. What holds it back is price: the typical home is worth about $322K, 3.5 years of the Chicago metro’s $91K median household income. Plainfield Township’s median rent is $2,105 a month, above both Illinois’ towns ($1,128 a month) and U.S. towns ($1,185 a month). Plainfield Township's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 88% of U.S. towns. The biggest place to walk is Four Seasons Park, 174 acres with 1 miles of trail.
Where Plainfield Township beats most towns.
Where Plainfield 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 Plainfield Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Its founding year, 1816, comes before those of 98% of the Illinois towns we grade with a known year.
Census counts: 723 in 1870, 44,762 in 2020. The archive holds 18 old photos and papers going back to 1907 and 7 maps from 1892 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Plainfield Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw35 mi Stadium & arenaSoldier Field
Big draw37 mi Stadium & arenaWrigley Field
Big draw34 mi MuseumBarack Obama Presidential Center
Big draw34 mi Stadium & arenaRate Field
Big draw34 mi Stadium & arenaUnited Center
Big draw36 mi MuseumArt Institute of Chicago1.5M visitors a yearSoldier 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
Who provides power, water and the rest in Plainfield 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 Plainfield Township.
Plainfield Township owes part of its health edge to its incomes and has household incomes well above the Illinois norm.
14 miles of trail in 58 parks and preserves.
| Plainfield Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 7.9% | 3.6% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.4 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Lake Renwick Preserve | 1.4 mi | 33 |
| 2. Mather Woods Park | 1.1 mi | 76 |
| 3. Four Seasons Park | 1 mi | 174 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Its public schools are run by Plainfield SD 202. Three of its 19 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timber Ridge Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 885 | B− |
| Plainfield High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,800 | B |
| Richard Ira Jones Middle SchoolTop results in townGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 851 | A− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IL on state tests and graduation
Most working residents leave Plainfield Township for work: only 8% work in town. The average trip to work in Plainfield Township is 32 minutes. Since 2013, Plainfield Township has added 1,221 jobs, to 16,363 in 2023.
| Plainfield Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $127,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 32 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 4.7% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 15% | 11% | 11% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Against the 4,857 U.S. towns with household incomes like Plainfield Township’s, it is less healthy than 65%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
Plainfield Township beats the Illinois average on 8 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 0. 20% of adults binge drink in Plainfield Township.
| Plainfield Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 18% | 16% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 22% | 23% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 35% | 35% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 13% | 14% |
| What stands out | Plainfield Township | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 12.5% | 15.9% |
| Fewer adults who have had a stroke | 2.7% | 3.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Plainfield Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 16° and about 29 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The median household earns $127,061, against $83,390 across Illinois, one input to its A for jobs and income.
9.5% of Plainfield Township residents are 65 or older. Plainfield Township has grown 3.5% since 2020, to 85,115 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate. 26% of Plainfield Township residents are under 18.
| Plainfield Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aged 65 or older | 9.5% | 19% | 18% |
| Median age | 35.4 years | 40.7 years | 40.5 years |
| Under 18 | 26% | 22% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 39% | 29% | 29% |
51% women, 49% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±1.2 points. Across Illinois, 50.6% of residents are women. Median age: women 35.4, men 35.4.
| Plainfield Township | IL | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 13.7% | 11.5% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 12.4% | 10.4% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 9.5% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 13.7% | 13.6% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 14.2% | 13.3% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 15.8% | 12.4% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 11% | 12.8% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 6% | 10% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 3.5% | 7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 6% | 9.5% | 10.4% |
| High school | 23% | 25.1% | 26% |
| Some college | 21.3% | 19.2% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 10.4% | 8.3% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 25% | 22.6% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 14.2% | 15.3% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 57% of U.S. communities. Since 1983, 136 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Plainfield Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
6 within 15 miles of the center of Plainfield Township
About 7 of every 100 Plainfield Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Illinois.
Village in Illinois, United States
Plainfield is a village in Will and Kendall counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. The population was 44,762 at the 2020 census. The village includes land in Will County's Plainfield and Wheatland townships, as well as Na-Au-Say and Oswego townships in Kendall County. With the growth in the Chicago suburbs in the 1990s and 2000s, the village has seen a population increase from 4,500 in 1990 to nearly 45,000 in 2020. It is midway between the cities of Naperville and Joliet in Chicago's collar counties. The village has established a community Preservation Commission and historic preservation ordinance. It is the home of the Lake Renwick Preserve, a county forest preserve used for birdwatchin…
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4 towns share a border with Plainfield Township.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plainfield Township | #369 | B | C− | — | B+ | B+ |
| Troy Township | #398 | B | C | — | B− | B+ |
| Wheatland Township | #119 | A | C− | — | A− | A |
| Lockport Township | #412 | B | C− | — | B | B+ |
| Na-Au-Say Township | #440 | B | C− | — | B+ | A− |
Plainfield Township, Troy Township, Wheatland Township, Lockport Township and Na-Au-Say Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Plainfield Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
For most people who can afford it, yes. Plainfield Township grades B overall, better than 65% of U.S. towns and #369 of 767 in Illinois. It grades B+ for health and B+ for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a C−.
Yes. 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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