Best PlacesFive Points, Great Lakes, IL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Five Points, Great Lakes, 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.
Five Points, Great Lakes ranks 4,865th of 5,983 U.S. neighborhoods on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on heat safety by a wide margin, and property taxes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Five Points, Great Lakes
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.
Five Points, Great Lakes' strengths and weaknesses
Where Five Points, Great Lakes ranks high
- Heat safetyBetter than 98% of neighborhoods
- Short commute15.1 minutes each way, better than 98% of neighborhoods
- Local economyBetter than 89% of neighborhoods
- Disaster safetyBetter than 89% of neighborhoods
- Health outlookBetter than 88% of neighborhoods
Where Five Points, Great Lakes ranks low
- Low property taxBetter than only 2% of neighborhoods
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 4% of neighborhoods
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 4% of neighborhoods
- School gradeD−, better than only 6% of neighborhoods
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 9% of neighborhoods
What it costs to buy a home in Five Points, Great Lakes
A household needs to earn about $57,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Five Points, Great Lakes home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $56,604; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.
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 Five Points, Great Lakes' effective rate of 2.27%, 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 4 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Five Points, Great Lakes
Five Points, Great Lakes runs younger than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Five Points, Great Lakes.
Who works in Five Points, Great Lakes, and how
Work in Five Points, Great Lakes centers on hospitality & food and public administration. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 52%
- Work from home 23%
- Transit, walk, or bike 25%
Life in Five Points, Great Lakes
Five Points, Great Lakes has more parkland per resident than 89% of neighborhoods. That concentrates in some parts of Five Points, Great Lakes and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Five Points, Great Lakes, month by month
Five Points, Great Lakes 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 Five Points, Great Lakes
Chicago O'Hare International sits about 23 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 Five Points, Great Lakes
Schools across Five Points, Great Lakes average a D−, better than 6% of neighborhoods.
Top elementary schools
- Oak Grove Elem SchoolA− · 61% proficient
- Lake Bluff Elem SchB · 50% proficient
- Learn Chtr Sch 6 N Chicago CampusC− · 27% proficient
Top middle schools
- Lake Bluff Middle SchoolB− · 40% proficient
- Neal Math Science AcademyF · 3% proficient
Top high schools
- Lake Forest High SchoolA · 67% proficient
- Libertyville High SchoolA− · 61% proficient
- North Chicago Community High SchF · 6% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Five Points, Great Lakes school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Five Points, Great Lakes 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 Five Points, Great Lakes against the other 5,982 neighborhoods.
Common questions about living in Five Points, Great Lakes
Is Five Points, Great Lakes a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Five Points, Great Lakes ranks 4,865th of 5,983 neighborhoods. It scores highest on heat safety, short commutes, and a strong job market, and lowest on property taxes and an overheated housing market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Five Points, Great Lakes expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $181,453. The overall cost of living runs about 3% below the national average. Set against a $56,604 median income, cost of living beats 18% of neighborhoods.
Is Five Points, Great Lakes safe?
Five Points, Great Lakes is safer than 41% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $653 per resident a year.
Compare Five Points, Great Lakes with other neighborhoods
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Five Points, Great Lakes. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Five Points, Great Lakes 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.
Five Points, Great Lakes detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Five Points, Great Lakes: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Five Points, Great Lakes: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Five Points, Great Lakes: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Five Points, Great Lakes: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Five Points, Great Lakes 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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