Is Stone Park a good place to live?
Stone Park grades C overall, 615th of 767 graded towns in Illinois, with clear strengths and some subjects that lag. Crime is low: it reports less per resident than 94% of U.S. towns and it is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns. On the other side, FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 89% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. Only 122 of Illinois’ 1,284 towns score lower on health. Stone Park's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 100% of U.S. towns. Stone Park's public schools trail 87% of Illinois towns on state tests and graduation.
What makes Stone Park stand out
Where Stone Park beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
95% of working residents leave Stone Park for work
Where Stone Park’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Stone Park grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Stone Park is from typical.
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Wrigley Field and 153 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Stone Park. Close and well known come first.
Big draw12 mi Stadium & arenaWrigley Field
Big draw14 mi Stadium & arenaSoldier Field
Big draw17 mi MuseumBarack Obama Presidential Center
Big draw11 mi Stadium & arenaUnited Center
Big draw14 mi Stadium & arenaRate Field
7 mi Stadium & arenaAllstate ArenaPhoto credits
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Moving to Stone Park: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Stone Park, 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 Stone Park.
Stone Park sees little violent crime and has commutes shorter than most of Illinois, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Illinois (mostly inland flooding).
Stone Park stands out in Illinois and nationally, with property crime lower than most
Violent crime is rare: 3 reported in 2025, 0.7 per 1,000 residents.
At 0.4 per 1,000 residents, Stone Park’s property crime rate is where Illinois’ towns sit at 7.9 and U.S. towns at 9.9.
| Stone Park | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.4 per 1,000 residents | 7.9 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.7 per 1,000 residents | 1 | 1.6 |
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Property crime per 1,000 residents
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Compared with most of Illinois and the rest of the country, the FEMA risk score in Stone Park is higher
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 98% of Illinois towns, with expected losses of about $686 per resident a year; that rating is what its D for hazard risk is built on. 393 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 96 properties have flooded more than once.
Since 1979, 393 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Stone Park.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Stone Park is less healthy than 79% of U.S. towns
Stone Park beats the Illinois average on 3 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 17. 33% of adults say their health is fair or poor in Stone Park. No town among the 767 in Illinois we compare has a higher share of adults 18 to 64 who have no health insurance than Stone Park.
| Stone Park | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 18% | 19% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 23% | 25% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 13% | 14% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 7.9% | 8.1% |
| What stands out | Stone Park | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 3.7% | 7.6% |
| Fewer adults with arthritis | 18.1% | 24.2% |
| More uninsured adults | 33.1% | 9.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Stone Park has 0.7 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
The average commute for its 1,736 working residents takes 20.2 minutes, against 27.8 across Illinois. Jobs based here grew from 555 in 2013 to 1,164.
Most working residents leave Stone Park for work: only 5% work in town. The average trip to work in Stone Park is 20 minutes. Jobs based in Stone Park grew to 1,164 in 2023, 609 more than in 2013.
| Stone Park | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 20 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $67,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 12% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 4.9% | 8.4% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Stone Park, expect snowy winters and pleasant summers
Stone Park has chilly, snowy winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 17° and about 42 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Homes in Stone Park are worth about $272K, by Zillow’s estimate
65.1% of renter households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, against 47.9% across Illinois.
The typical Stone Park home is worth about $272,000, up 6.4% in a year, 8% below the Illinois typical home. 48% of Stone Park households own their home.
| Stone Park | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 48% | 75% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,412 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 Stone Park
Colleges nearby
51 within 15 miles of the center of Stone Park
About 5 of every 100 Stone Park residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Illinois.
About Stone Park
Village in Illinois, United States
Stone Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 4,576 at the 2020 census. Incorporated in 1939, the town was named for insurance magnate Clement Stone, who bought most of the land when it was still corn fields.
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- Area
- 0.3 sq mi
- ZIP code
- 60165
- Area code
- 708
Stone Park’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Stone Park.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stone Park | #615 | C | C− | A | D | C− |
| Melrose Park | #670 | C− | C | C | C− | C+ |
| Northlake | #574 | C | C+ | B− | C− | B− |
Questions about Stone Park
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Stone Park, IL a good place to live?
Stone Park grades C overall, better than 26% of U.S. towns and #615 of 767 in Illinois. It grades C− for health, A for safety and D for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Stone Park, IL expensive?
Yes. That is 3 years of the area's median household income ($90,887 across the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.