Is Tower Lakes a good place to live?
The best of Tower Lakes’ subject grades are an A+ for safety, incomes, and health; the weakest is a D for hazard risk. 76% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Tower Lakes, above both Illinois’ towns (29%) and U.S. towns (29%). No town in Illinois scores higher than Tower Lakes on safety. Tower Lakes's schools outperform 90% of the state's. 11% of the land in Tower Lakes is conserved, against 3.7% in Illinois’ towns and 4.3% across U.S. towns. Tower Lakes has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Tower Lakes stand out
Where Tower Lakes beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
1,201 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
How Tower Lakes grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Tower Lakes is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Wrigley Field and 136 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Tower Lakes. Close and well known come first.
Big draw32 mi Stadium & arenaWrigley Field
Big draw37 mi Stadium & arenaSoldier Field
Big draw15 mi Theme parkSix Flags Great America3.0M visitors a year
Big draw38 mi Stadium & arenaRate Field
Big draw34 mi Stadium & arenaUnited Center
21 mi Stadium & arenaAllstate ArenaPhoto credits
Wrigley Field: Ryan Dickey, CC BY 2.0 · Soldier Field: Photo by Joon Han Contact: [email protected], CC BY-SA 3.0 · Six Flags Great America: Feather Better, CC BY 4.0 · Rate Field: User Enoch Lai on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · United Center: User:JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Allstate Arena: Nkon21, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Moving to Tower Lakes: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Tower Lakes, 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 Tower Lakes.
Tower Lakes stands out in Illinois and nationally: a larger share of its households own their home
97% of Tower Lakes households own their home. Typical home values rose 7.7% in the year to September 2026.
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
In Tower Lakes, property crime runs lower than in the typical Illinois or U.S. town
The property crime rate in Tower Lakes is 0 per 1,000 residents. Tower Lakes reports less crime per resident than 100% of the U.S. towns and cities we grade.
| Tower Lakes | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0 per 1,000 residents | 7.9 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0 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
Tower Lakes is healthier than 97% of U.S. towns
Tower Lakes beats the Illinois average on 20 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 12% of adults report frequent mental distress in Tower Lakes. Only 8 of the 768 Illinois towns we compare have a lower share of adults who feel lonely than Tower Lakes.
| Tower Lakes | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 17% | 17% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 33% | 33% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 35% | 36% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 23% | 25% |
| What stands out | Tower Lakes | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 5.5% | 15.9% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 3.8% | 9.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.5% | 7.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Tower Lakes faces a very high natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 90% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Tower Lakes’ workers commute out
Most working residents leave Tower Lakes for work: only 0% work in town. Tower Lakes’ median household income is $154,000. Jobs based in Tower Lakes grew to 140 in 2023, 114 more than in 2013.
| Tower Lakes | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $154,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 35 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 2% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.4% | 8.3% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Tower Lakes, expect snowy winters and pleasant summers
Tower Lakes has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 83°, January nights drop to 15° and about 43 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Tower Lakes has set aside 11.2% of its land for conservation
0.1 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Grassy Lake Forest Preserve | — | 2 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Tower Lakes
Colleges nearby
7 within 15 miles of the center of Tower Lakes
About 5 of every 100 Tower Lakes residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Illinois.
100% of working residents leave Tower Lakes for work
Where Tower Lakes’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Tower Lakes
Village in Illinois, United States
Tower Lakes is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 1,226.
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- Area
- 1.0 sq mi
Questions about Tower Lakes
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Tower Lakes, IL expensive?
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−.