Village · DeKalb County, Illinois

Maple Park, Illinois

Maple Park is a village in DeKalb County, Illinois, part of the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area. It has 1,573 residents. Maple Park, Illinois has a quality-of-life score of 67 out of 100 (high), ranking #5,205 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Illinois it ranks #183 of 697 cities and towns. It ranks best on hospital quality rating (high), broadband subscriptions (high) and injury deaths (low). It ranks worst on effective property tax rate (high), primary care shortage (high) and primary care physicians (low).

67High

Quality-of-life score: #5,205 of 15,651 cities and towns
Illinois: #183 of 697 in IL
Population: 1,573 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 687.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 1746604

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety56#6,873/15,637
Economy68#5,019/15,631
Housing72#4,217/14,977
Health78#3,485/15,609
Healthcare54#7,130/15,650
Environment51#7,579/15,453
Education45#8,595/15,649
Infrastructure77#3,614/15,650
Community51#7,642/15,651
Leisure & amenities39#9,494/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Maple Park, Illinois ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “DeKalb County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Hospital quality rating · high4.5
94/100Illinois 3.0United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesDeKalb County value
Broadband subscriptions · high97.4%
89/100Illinois 90.8%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Injury deaths · low61 /100k
87/100Illinois 80 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDeKalb County value
Lack of reliable transportation · low5.7%
87/100Illinois 8.4%United States 8.3%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Uninsured residents (under 65) · low2.7%
87/100Illinois 8.1%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010High uncertainty
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.346
86/100Illinois 0.481United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083

Weaknesses

Effective property tax rate · high2.23%
4/100Illinois 1.88%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Primary care shortage · high17.0
9/100Illinois 6.6United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationDeKalb County value
Primary care physicians · low27 /100k
10/100Illinois 82 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDeKalb County value
Child care cost burden · high39.1%
11/100Illinois 30.4%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDeKalb County value
Dental care shortage · high17.0
12/100Illinois 4.8United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationDeKalb County value
Average commute time · high37.9 min
14/100Illinois 27.8 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Child poverty rateWorsening
0.0% (2015-2019) → 12.6% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
New homes permittedWorsening
6.8 /1k (2021) → 2.5 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−62%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
41.3% (2015-2019) → 32.4% (2020-2024)
−8.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
89.1% (2015-2019) → 97.4% (2020-2024)
+8.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.1× (2015-2019) → 2.7× (2020-2024)
+30%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Poverty rateWorsening
2.6% (2015-2019) → 7.0% (2020-2024)
+4.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Maple Park, Illinois improved on 1 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 8 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Broadband+8.3 points89.1% → 97.4%

Declined1

Price / income+0.6×2.1× → 2.7×

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Maple Park, Illinois between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	35.2 min2015-2019	37.9 min2020-2024	+2.7 min	Within the margin of error	22%
Bachelor's degree or higher	30.4%2015-2019	31.8%2020-2024	+1.4 points	Within the margin of error	37%
Broadband subscriptions	89.1%2015-2019	97.4%2020-2024	+8.3 points	Improved	51%
Effective property tax rate	2.83%2015-2019	2.23%2020-2024	−0.6 points	Within the margin of error	94%
High school diploma or higher	93.8%2015-2019	97.4%2020-2024	+3.6 points	Within the margin of error	73%
Home price to income ratio	2.1×2015-2019	2.7×2020-2024	+0.6×	Declined	41%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.2982015-2019	0.3462020-2024	+0.048	Within the margin of error	17%
Median household income	$96,7192015-2019	$107,0452020-2024	+11%	Within the margin of error	17%
Rent as share of income	27.4%2015-2019	27.2%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	57%
Rent-burdened households	41.3%2015-2019	32.4%2020-2024	−8.9 points	Within the margin of error	80%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Maple Park, Illinois five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Maple Park, Illinois in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Maple Park, Illinois itself moved +2 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,573 residents (±299)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: 20–29 women (−4.9 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

1,573 residents (±299)

Maple Park, Illinois
Illinois share

White84%1,315
Black0.6%†9
Hispanic or Latino11%†170

Education

1,047 residents (±171)

Maple Park, Illinois
Illinois share

No high school diploma2.6%†27
High school or GED28%†297
Some college19%203

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

576 households (±89)

Maple Park, Illinois
Illinois share

Under $25k5.9%†34
$25k–50k11%†66
$50k–75k13%†72
$75k–100k16%†93
$100k–150k29%†166
$150k–200k16%†93
$200k or more9.0%†52

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

576 households (±89)

Maple Park, Illinois
Illinois share

Own75%434
Rent25%†142

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

142 households (±59)

Maple Park, Illinois
Illinois share

Under $7507.0%†10
$750–1,0006.3%†9
$1,000–1,50011%†16

Home values

434 homes (±65)

Maple Park, Illinois
Illinois share

Under $150k9.4%†41
$150k–250k21%†93
$250k–400k61%263

Age of homes

576 homes (±89)

Maple Park, Illinois
Illinois share

2010 or later5.9%†34
2000–200938%220
1980–199920%†113

Size of homes

576 homes (±89)

Maple Park, Illinois
Illinois share

Studio0.0%0
1 bedroom0.7%†4
2 bedrooms28%†163

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

836 workers (±179)

Maple Park, Illinois
Illinois share

Drive alone73%613
Carpool9.2%†77
Public transit0.8%†7
Walk1.6%†13
Bike0.0%0
Work from home14%†121
Other0.6%†5

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Work from home (+13.1 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

715 workers (±167)

Maple Park, Illinois
Illinois share

Under 15 min13%†92
15–29 min26%188
30–44 min31%†219

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of DeKalb County, the county holding most of Maple Park's residents.

DeKalb County has 1,975 employer establishments, 197 for every 10,000 residents (0.79× the US rate of 248; 0.77× Illinois's), with 29,129 paid employees at an average annual pay of $51,676. The Census Bureau also counts 6,858 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,975; 6,858 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 197; US 248 · Illinois 255
Paid employees: 29,129
Average annual pay: $51,676; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of DeKalb County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	173	17.3	1.12×About typical	1,000	$81,859	457
Restaurants and other eating places	159	15.9	0.86×About typical	2,812	$18,886	29
Ambulatory health care services	157	15.7	0.75×Fewer than typical	1,530	$78,271	246
Limited-service restaurants	84	8.4	1.05×About typical	1,600	$17,687	12
Building equipment contractors	67	6.7	1.11×About typical	381	$93,782	91
Truck transportation	64	6.4	1.26×More than typical	260	$60,912	169
Religious organizations	62	6.2	1.12×About typical	357	$21,092	—
Services to buildings and dwellings	62	6.2	0.92×About typical	315	$44,124	371
Full-service restaurants	61	6.1	0.79×Fewer than typical	1,022	$20,806	9
Offices of other health practitioners	58	5.8	0.95×About typical	330	$48,967	124
Automotive repair and maintenance	56	5.6	1.11×About typical	355	$42,039	88
Lessors of real estate	52	5.2	0.42×Fewer than typical	229	$48,611	595

Rank places for an industry Open DeKalb County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 100,131 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Maple Park, Illinois: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

276.1FY2017

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Maple Park, Illinois, so they do not add up across cities.

Maple Park, Illinois's figures are part of those of DeKalb County, IL and Kane County, IL ($797.5M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Maple Park is mostly in DeKalb County.

See federal money in DeKalb County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Maple Park, Illinois is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).