Is Stickney a good place to live?
Stickney grades B− overall, 485th of 767 graded towns in Illinois, with clear strengths and some subjects that lag. Crime is low: it reports less per resident than 80% of U.S. towns and it is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 92% of U.S. towns. On the other side, FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 82% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. Only 13 of Illinois’ 1,240 towns score lower on civic life. Stickney's schools rank behind 85% of the state's. The biggest park or preserve is Rench Park, at 77 acres.
What makes Stickney stand out
Where Stickney beats most towns.
How Stickney grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Stickney is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Soldier Field and 153 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Stickney. Close and well known come first.
Big draw9 mi Stadium & arenaSoldier Field
Big draw11 mi Stadium & arenaWrigley Field
Big draw10 mi MuseumBarack Obama Presidential Center
Big draw7 mi Stadium & arenaRate Field
Big draw7 mi Stadium & arenaUnited Center
Big draw9 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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Moving to Stickney: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Stickney, 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 Stickney.
Stickney is healthier than towns with similar incomes and sees little violent crime, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Illinois (mostly inland flooding).
For safety, Stickney earns an A−
Violent crime is rare: 6 reported in 2025, 0.9 per 1,000 residents.
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Property crime per 1,000 residents
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Very high risk in Stickney, with inland flooding at the top
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 94% of Illinois towns, with expected losses of about $683 per resident a year; that rating is what its D for hazard risk is built on.
One flood insurance claim has been paid in Stickney since 2025.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
On CDC estimates, Stickney is healthier than 68% of U.S. towns
Against the 10,189 U.S. towns with household incomes like Stickney’s, it is healthier than 88%, so its B+ isn’t only a matter of income.
Stickney beats the Illinois average on 6 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 8. 18% of Stickney adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance, against 7.9% in Illinois’ towns and 8.1% across U.S. towns. 28% of adults have high blood pressure in Stickney.
| Stickney | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 7.9% | 8.1% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 35% | 35% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 13% | 14% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 22% | 23% |
| What stands out | Stickney | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 6.2% | 7.6% |
| Fewer adults with arthritis | 20.6% | 24.2% |
| More uninsured adults | 18.3% | 9.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Four seasons and pleasant summers in Stickney
Stickney has chilly, snowy winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 18° and about 39 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Stickney has 0.8 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Most working residents leave Stickney for work: only 2% work in town. Jobs based in Stickney grew to 2,486 in 2023, 295 more than in 2013. 12% of Stickney residents live below the poverty line, above both the Illinois town median (8.4%) and the median of U.S. towns (9.6%).
| Stickney | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 2.3% | 8.4% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 12% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $67,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 14% | 11% | 11% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Stickney has set aside 6.2% of its land for conservation
0.2 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves. The trail density in Stickney is 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Stickney | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 6.2% | 3.6% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Rench Park | — | 77 |
| 2. Haley Park | 0.2 mi | 3 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
The median home in Stickney sells for about $325K
83% of Stickney households own their home.
| Stickney | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 83% | 75% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,154 a month | $1,128 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Stickney
Colleges nearby
53 within 15 miles of the center of Stickney
About 8 of every 100 Stickney residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Illinois.
About Stickney
Village in Illinois, United States
Stickney is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 7,110. The village is named for Alpheus Beede Stickney, a railroad executive who played a central role in establishing the Clearing Industrial District. It was well known in the 1920s and early 1930s as the home for several bordellos linked to mobster Al Capone's empire.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Established
- 1913
- Area
- 2.0 sq mi
- Area code
- 708
Stickney’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Stickney.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stickney | #485 | B− | C | A− | C− | B+ |
| Stickney Township | #604 | C | C | — | C− | B |
| Chicago | #676 | C− | C− | D | C | B+ |
| Forest View | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cicero | #662 | C− | C+ | C+ | D | C+ |
Stickney Township reports no FBI crime data of its own. Forest View isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Stickney with a neighbor →
Questions about Stickney
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Stickney, IL a good place to live?
Stickney grades B− overall, better than 49% of U.S. towns and #485 of 767 in Illinois. It grades B+ for health, A− for safety and C− for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Stickney, IL expensive?
The typical home is worth about $245,000, 17% 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.