Best PlacesBeach Park, IL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Beach Park, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Beach Park ranks 27,713th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on transit by a wide margin, and the schools rank lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Beach Park
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
Beach Park's strengths and weaknesses
Where Beach Park ranks high
- TransitBetter than 97% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 96% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 94% of towns
- BikingBetter than 94% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 94% of towns
Where Beach Park ranks low
- School gradeD−, better than only 2% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 3% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 4% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 5% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 9% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Beach Park
A household needs to earn about $69,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Beach Park home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $81,664, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Beach Park's effective rate of 1.83%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 7 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Beach Park
Beach Park runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Beach Park.
Who works in Beach Park, and how
Work in Beach Park centers on health care & social and manufacturing. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 83%
- Work from home 12%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Beach Park
Beach Park has more parkland per resident than 84% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Beach Park and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Beach Park, month by month
Beach Park sees roughly 93 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 83 degrees. January highs sit near 32, with lows near 19. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 32° | 25° | 19° |
| April | 56° | 46° | 37° |
| July | 83° | 73° | 65° |
| October | 63° | 54° | 45° |
Flying in and out of Beach Park
Chicago O'Hare International sits about 31 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 40.8 million passengers in 2025, with 305 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Beach Park
Schools across Beach Park average a D−, better than 2% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Little Fort Elem SchoolD · 18% proficient
- Oak Crest SchoolD · 18% proficient
- H R Mccall Elem SchoolD− · 15% proficient
Top middle schools
- Viking SchoolD− · 13% proficient
- Beach Park Middle SchoolF · 12% proficient
- Jack Benny Middle SchoolF · 11% proficient
Top high schools
- Warren Township High SchoolC+ · 39% proficient
- Zion-benton Twnshp Hi SchD− · 13% proficient
- New Tech High - Zion-benton EastF · 8% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Beach Park school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Beach Park measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Beach Park against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Beach Park
Is Beach Park a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Beach Park ranks 27,713th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on transit, big-city access, and cell coverage, and lowest on the schools and taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Beach Park expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $232,322. The overall cost of living runs about 6% below the national average. Set against a $81,664 median income, cost of living beats 55% of towns.
Is Beach Park safe?
Beach Park is safer than 47% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $247 per resident a year.
Compare Beach Park with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Beach Park. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Beach Park represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
Beach Park detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Beach Park: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Beach Park: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Beach Park: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Beach Park: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Beach Park detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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