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Western Springs and Wilmette are among the ‘safest and wealthiest’ places to live in the US – NBC Chicago


Western Springs and Wilmette are among the ‘safest and wealthiest’ places to live in the US – NBC Chicago

Four Chicago suburbs just made it onto a new list of the 30 “safest and richest” places to live in the United States for 2024.

For GOBankingRates’ new rankings, cities across the country were analyzed using data points such as median household income, total population, total number of households, cost of living indices, crime rates and more, the editors wrote.

In total, six of the cities are in New Jersey and seven each are in California and Massachusetts. Four of the cities are in Illinois, three of which landed in the top five – two of which took first and second place.

According to the rankings, Western Springs, a city in Cook County with 13,557 residents located between Hinsdale and La Grange, came in first.

In Western Springs, the median household income was $276,402 and the median single-family home value was $763,060, the report said.

Second on the list is Kenilworth, located on Chicago’s glitzy North Shore. According to the list, the median household income was significantly higher at $437,822, with the average value of a single-family home at $1,768,606.

Kenilworth also recently earned a spot in another GOBankingRates report from earlier this year, which listed America’s “wealthiest suburbs.”

Winnetka, a northern suburb next to Kenilworth, also made the list, coming in at number 5.

In Winnetka, the average median household income was $458,988 and the average single-family home value was $1,623,361.

Wilmette, another nearby suburb on the North Shore, ranked 17th on the list. According to the report, the average median household income in Wilmette was $273,718 and the average value of a single-family home was $909,173. Wilmette also landed on the GOBankingRates 2024 report, which listed the “wealthiest suburbs” in the country.

Only one other Midwestern city made the list: Ottawa Hills, Ohio, which came in at number 6.

You can find the full GOBankingRates report here.

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