Best PlacesRound Lake Beach, IL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Round Lake Beach, 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.
Round Lake Beach ranks 1,623rd of 2,098 U.S. cities 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 Round Lake Beach
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.
Round Lake Beach's strengths and weaknesses
Where Round Lake Beach ranks high
- Heat safetyBetter than 95% of cities
- Disaster safetyBetter than 94% of cities
- Cell coverageBetter than 80% of cities
- QuietBetter than 79% of cities
- WalkabilityBetter than 79% of cities
Where Round Lake Beach ranks low
- Low property taxBetter than only 1% of cities
- School gradeD−, better than only 2% of cities
- Local economyBetter than only 4% of cities
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 4% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 5% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Round Lake Beach
A household needs to earn about $69,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Round Lake Beach home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $90,812, 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 Round Lake Beach's effective rate of 2.61%, 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 6 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Round Lake Beach
Round Lake Beach runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Round Lake Beach.
Who works in Round Lake Beach, and how
Work in Round Lake Beach centers on manufacturing and retail trade. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 88%
- Work from home 8%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Round Lake Beach
Round Lake Beach has more parkland per resident than 79% of cities. That concentrates in some parts of Round Lake Beach and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Round Lake Beach, month by month
Round Lake Beach sees roughly 94 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 Round Lake Beach
Chicago O'Hare International sits about 29 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 Round Lake Beach
Schools across Round Lake Beach average a D−, better than 2% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Meadowview SchoolB− · 43% proficient
- Prairieview SchoolC · 33% proficient
- Olive C Martin SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
Top middle schools
- Frederick SchoolC− · 28% proficient
- Peter J Palombi SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
- Magee Middle SchoolD− · 15% proficient
Top high schools
- Grayslake North High SchoolC+ · 40% proficient
- Grant Community High SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
- Round Lake Senior High SchoolF · 11% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Round Lake Beach school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Round Lake Beach 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 Round Lake Beach against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Round Lake Beach suits
Common questions about living in Round Lake Beach
Is Round Lake Beach a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Round Lake Beach ranks 1,623rd of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on heat safety, low disaster risk, and cell coverage, and lowest on property taxes and the schools. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Round Lake Beach expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $213,113. The overall cost of living runs about 7% below the national average. Set against a $90,812 median income, cost of living beats 50% of cities.
Is Round Lake Beach safe?
Round Lake Beach is safer than 38% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $271 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Round Lake Beach?
July highs average about 83 degrees, and January highs near 32 with lows near 19. That works out to about 94 pleasant days a year, more than 56% of cities.
Is Round Lake Beach good for families?
Schools beat 2% of cities, crime safety beats 38%, and childcare runs $1,267 a month.
Compare Round Lake Beach with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Round Lake Beach. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Round Lake Beach 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.
Round Lake Beach detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Round Lake Beach: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Round Lake Beach: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Round Lake Beach: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Round Lake Beach: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Round Lake Beach 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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