Midwest · Illinois · pop 2.7M
Chicago, IL
Fair match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in IL, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,081 — covering estimated essentials here (about $1,360 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,220 left over.
There's plenty to do — roughly 33 restaurants, arts, and recreation spots per 10k residents.
Expect summer highs near 84°F, winter lows around 21°F, and about 189 sunny days a year.
Tradeoff: the local job market is softer than most on this list (4.5% unemployment).
The Chicago fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,861/mo
Typical rent
$1,600/mo
Home value ÷ income
4.4×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,350/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,600/mo
- Median home value
- $310,000
- Median household income
- $71,000
- Population
- 2,660,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 4.5%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 0.7%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 940
- Property crime rate
- 3,300
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 84°F
- Avg. winter low
- 21°F
- Sunny days / year
- 189
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈8/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈48/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈13/yr
- Annual rain
- 38"
- Annual snow
- 36"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+33
- Int'l airport
- ≈18 mi
- Walkability
- 77/100
- Disaster risk
- 38/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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