Preston HeightsIL
A town of 2,449.
Is Preston Heights a good place to live?
Preston Heights’ best subject grade is an A− for walkability; its weakest is a C− for schools. 23% of residents live below the poverty line in Preston Heights, above both the Illinois town median (8.4%) and the median of U.S. towns (9.6%). On health, just 77 of Illinois’ 1,284 towns do worse. Preston Heights has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Preston Heights stand out
Where Preston Heights beats most towns.
Preston Heights has grown 13% from 2010 to 2020
2,575 counted in 2010 and 2,898 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
How Preston Heights grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Preston Heights is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Preston Heights: who provides what
Preston Heights is unincorporated, so Will County and regional agencies provide most services.
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 Preston Heights.
Compared with most of Illinois and the rest of the country, more of Preston Heights’ adults sleep under 7 hours
46% of adults sleep under 7 hours in Preston Heights, above both Illinois’ towns (35%) and U.S. towns (36%). 34% of Preston Heights adults get no exercise outside work. Preston Heights beats the Illinois average on 2 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 20.
| Preston Heights | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 46% | 35% | 36% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 47% | 37% | 35% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 33% | 33% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 13% | 14% |
| What stands out | Preston Heights | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 5.7% | 7.6% |
| More adults treating high blood pressure | 78.9% | 75.7% |
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 19.6% | 10.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
A smaller share of working residents in Preston Heights work locally than in the typical Illinois or U.S. town
0.3% of working residents work locally in Preston Heights. The top destinations are Joliet (20%), Chicago (11%) and New Lenox (4%). The median household income in Preston Heights is $52,000.
| Preston Heights | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $52,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.3% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 23 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Low risk in Preston Heights, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 69% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
In Preston Heights, expect four seasons and pleasant summers
Preston Heights has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 16° and about 17 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Oak Valley Park | — | 8 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Homes in Preston Heights sell for about $193K
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Soldier Field and 140 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Preston Heights. Close and well known come first.
Big draw35 mi Stadium & arenaSoldier Field
Big draw38 mi Stadium & arenaWrigley Field
Big draw33 mi MuseumBarack Obama Presidential Center
Big draw33 mi Stadium & arenaRate Field
Big draw34 mi Stadium & arenaUnited Center
Big draw36 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 Preston Heights
Colleges nearby
3 within 15 miles of the center of Preston Heights
About 6 of every 100 Preston Heights residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Illinois.
100% of working residents leave Preston Heights for work
Where Preston Heights’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Preston Heights
Place in Illinois, United States
Preston Heights is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Will County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, the CDP population was 2,898.
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- Area
- 0.9 sq mi
Preston Heights’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Preston Heights.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preston Heights | — | — | B+ | — | C− | C− |
| Joliet | #667 | C− | C+ | C | C− | C+ |
Preston Heights has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Preston Heights reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Preston Heights with a neighbor →
Questions about Preston Heights
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Preston Heights, IL expensive?
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $144,000, 51% 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 B+.