Best PlacesVilla Park, IL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Villa Park, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Villa Park ranks 1,103rd of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. The weather pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on walkability.
The best neighborhoods in Villa 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.
Villa Park's strengths and weaknesses
Where Villa Park ranks high
- WalkabilityBetter than 90% of cities
- Big-city accessBetter than 88% of cities
- Disaster safetyBetter than 85% of cities
- Heat safetyBetter than 81% of cities
- Cell coverageBetter than 80% of cities
Where Villa Park ranks low
- Nice weatherabout 52 pleasant days a year, better than only 1% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 5% of cities
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 6% of cities
- Cheap childcare$1,560 a month, better than only 11% of cities
- Low property taxBetter than only 12% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Villa Park
A household needs to earn about $92,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Villa Park home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $98,328, 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 Villa Park's effective rate of 1.82%, 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 Villa Park
Villa Park runs younger than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Villa Park.
Who works in Villa Park, and how
Work in Villa Park centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 74%
- Work from home 20%
- Transit, walk, or bike 6%
Life in Villa Park
Villa Park has more restaurants and bars per resident than 78% of cities and more parkland per resident than 81% of cities. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Villa Park and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Villa Park, month by month
Villa Park sees roughly 52 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 35, with lows near 19. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 35° | 26° | 19° |
| April | 62° | 49° | 39° |
| July | 87° | 76° | 66° |
| October | 67° | 56° | 46° |
Flying in and out of Villa Park
Chicago O'Hare International sits about 7 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 Villa Park
Schools across Villa Park average a C−, better than 18% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Hawthorne Elem SchoolA− · 60% proficient
- Lincoln Elem SchoolB · 45% proficient
- Ardmore Elem SchoolC+ · 38% proficient
Top middle schools
- Bryan Middle SchoolB− · 42% proficient
- Jackson Middle SchoolC− · 28% proficient
- John E Albright Middle SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
Top high schools
- York Comm High SchoolB+ · 54% proficient
- Willowbrook High SchoolC+ · 38% proficient
- Addison Trail High SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Villa Park school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Villa 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 Villa Park against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Villa Park suits
Remote workers
Internet is fast and widely advertised and 20% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Villa Park
Is Villa Park a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Villa Park ranks 1,103rd of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on walkability, big-city access, and low disaster risk, and lowest on the weather and taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Villa Park expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $309,536. The overall cost of living runs about 0% above the national average. Set against a $98,328 median income, cost of living beats 54% of cities.
Is Villa Park safe?
Villa Park is safer than 27% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $295 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Villa Park?
July highs average about 87 degrees, and January highs near 35 with lows near 19. That works out to about 52 pleasant days a year, more than 0% of cities.
Is Villa Park good for families?
Schools beat 18% of cities, crime safety beats 27%, and childcare runs $1,560 a month.
Compare Villa Park with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Villa Park. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Villa 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.
Villa Park detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Villa Park: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Villa Park: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Villa Park: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Villa Park: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Villa 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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