Stickney TownshipIL
A town of 40,266, settled in 1913.
Is Stickney Township a good place to live?
Stickney Township is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades C overall, 604th among Illinois's 767 graded towns, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is health: it is healthier than 63% of U.S. towns. Expect to pay for it: the typical home is worth about $293K, 3.2 years of the Chicago metro’s $91K median household income. Stickney Township is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns. Only 24 of Illinois’ 1,240 towns score lower on civic life. The biggest park or preserve is Rench Park, at 77 acres.
What makes Stickney Township stand out
Where Stickney Township beats most towns.
Every workday, about 26,076 people come to Stickney Township for work
Where Stickney Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Stickney Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Stickney Township 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 Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw10 mi Stadium & arenaSoldier Field
Big draw14 mi Stadium & arenaWrigley Field
Big draw10 mi MuseumBarack Obama Presidential Center
Big draw8 mi Stadium & arenaRate Field
Big draw9 mi Stadium & arenaUnited Center
Big draw11 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 Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Stickney 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Stickney Township.
About one in three of Stickney Township’s working residents commute to Chicago
27,716 jobs are based in Stickney Township, 1.5 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. Jobs based here fell from 42,854 in 2013 to 27,716.
Most working residents leave Stickney Township for work: only 9% work in town. At 30 minutes, Stickney Township’s average trip to work is above both Illinois’ towns (26 minutes) and U.S. towns (25 minutes). Jobs based in Stickney Township fell to 27,716 in 2023, 15,138 fewer than in 2013.
| Stickney Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 30 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 12% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 8.1% | 11% | 11% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
On state tests, Stickney Township’s schools trail 82% of Illinois districts
Its public schools are run by Burbank SD 111. Two of its 15 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty Junior High SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 1,087 | C |
| Reavis High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,930 | C+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IL on state tests and graduation
Four seasons and pleasant summers in Stickney Township
Stickney Township 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
Inland flooding leads a high hazard risk in Stickney Township
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 65% of U.S. communities. Since 1979, 30 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Stickney Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
For health, Stickney Township earns a B
18% of adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance in Stickney Township, above both the Illinois town median (7.9%) and the median of U.S. towns (8.1%). 22% of adults worry about having enough food in Stickney Township. Stickney Township beats the Illinois average on 3 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 12.
| Stickney Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 7.9% | 8.1% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 13% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 35% | 35% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 18% | 16% |
| What stands out | Stickney Township | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 6.3% | 7.6% |
| Fewer adults with high blood pressure | 28.7% | 33% |
| More uninsured adults | 18.3% | 9.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Stickney Township has set aside 2.6% of its land for conservation
2.0 miles of trail in 15 parks and preserves.
| Stickney Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.2 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 2.6% | 3.7% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Narragansett Park | 0.6 mi | 14 |
| 2. Harr Park | 0.4 mi | 8 |
| 3. Fitzgerald Park | 0.4 mi | 8 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
For cost of living, Stickney Township earns a C
Typical home values rose 4.6% in the year to September 2026. 81% of Stickney Township households own their home.
| Stickney Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 81% | 75% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,238 a month | $1,128 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Stickney Township
Colleges nearby
52 within 15 miles of the center of Stickney Township
About 6 of every 100 Stickney Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Illinois.
About Stickney Township
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.
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- Established
- 1913
- Area
- 2.0 sq mi
- Area code
- 708
Stickney Township’s neighbors
10 towns share a border with Stickney Township.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stickney Township | #604 | C | C | — | C− | B |
| Chicago | #676 | C− | C− | D | C | B+ |
| Lyons Township | #219 | A− | C− | — | A− | A |
| Stickney | #485 | B− | C | A− | C− | B+ |
| Bedford Park | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Forest View | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cicero | #662 | C− | C+ | C+ | D | C+ |
| Burbank | #630 | C− | C | C | C | B |
Stickney Township and Lyons Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Bedford Park and Forest View aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Stickney Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Stickney Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Stickney Township, IL a good place to live?
Stickney Township grades C overall, better than 28% of U.S. towns and #604 of 767 in Illinois. It grades B for health and C− for schools. Schools is its weak spot, with a C−.
Is Stickney Township, IL expensive?
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.