Best PlacesPeotone, IL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Peotone, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Peotone ranks 19,874th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cell coverage by a wide margin, and taxes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Peotone
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.
Peotone's strengths and weaknesses
Where Peotone ranks high
- Cell coverageBetter than 97% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 95% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 88% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than 88% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 82% of towns
Where Peotone ranks low
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 3% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 4% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 5% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,347 a month, better than only 8% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 9% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Peotone
A household needs to earn about $87,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Peotone home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $93,593, 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 Peotone's effective rate of 1.57%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Peotone
Peotone runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Peotone.
Who works in Peotone, and how
Work in Peotone centers on health care & social and education. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 87%
- Work from home 10%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Peotone
Peotone has more restaurants and bars per resident than 70% of towns and more parkland per resident than 96% of towns. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Peotone and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Peotone, month by month
Peotone sees roughly 71 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 84 degrees. January highs sit near 33, with lows near 20. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 33° | 26° | 20° |
| April | 62° | 50° | 40° |
| July | 84° | 74° | 65° |
| October | 66° | 55° | 45° |
Flying in and out of Peotone
Chicago Midway International sits about 31 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 9.4 million passengers in 2025, with 113 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Peotone
Schools across Peotone average a C, better than 36% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Manteno Elem SchoolC− · 30% proficient
- Beecher Elem SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
Top middle schools
- Manteno Middle SchoolC · 33% proficient
- Beecher Junior High SchoolD+ · 24% proficient
Top high schools
- Peotone High SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
- Beecher High SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
- Manteno High SchoolD · 23% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Peotone school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Peotone 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 Peotone against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Peotone
Is Peotone a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Peotone ranks 19,874th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cell coverage, big-city access, and few empty homes, and lowest on taxes and state finances. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Peotone expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $301,335. The overall cost of living runs about 6% below the national average. Set against a $93,593 median income, cost of living beats 78% of towns.
Is Peotone safe?
Yes, Peotone is safer than 68% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $198 per resident a year.
Compare Peotone with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Peotone. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Peotone 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.
Peotone detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Peotone: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Peotone: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Peotone: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Peotone: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Peotone 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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