Beach Park vs Gages Lake

A side-by-side comparison of Beach Park and Gages Lake: population, income, housing, and more.

Beach Park and Gages Lake are places in Illinois. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Beach Park has the higher population (13,988 vs 10,706 in Gages Lake). Gages Lake has the higher median household income ($105,114 vs $83,069 in Beach Park). Gages Lake has the higher median home value ($291,200 vs $223,600 in Beach Park).

Population, income & housing

	Beach Park	Gages Lake
Population	13,988	10,706
Median age	36.2 yrs	40.3 yrs
Median household income	$83,069	$105,114
Median home value	$223,600	$291,200
Median gross rent	$1,235	$1,741
Housing units	4,880	4,206
Homeownership rate	84.3%	83.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher	15.5%	40.5%
Unemployment rate	8.9%	7.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Beach Park	Gages Lake
Population	13,181 → 13,988 (+6.1%)	10,161 → 10,706 (+5.4%)
Median household income	$71,867 → $83,069 (+15.6%)	$96,123 → $105,114 (+9.4%)
Median home value	$150,900 → $223,600 (+48.2%)	$231,800 → $291,200 (+25.6%)
Median gross rent	$1,482 → $1,235 (-16.7%)	$1,449 → $1,741 (+20.2%)

Beach Park

Population

13,18113,988

Median household income

$71,867$83,069

Median home value

$150,900$223,600

Median gross rent

$1,482$1,235

Gages Lake

Population

10,16110,706

Median household income

$96,123$105,114

Median home value

$231,800$291,200

Median gross rent

$1,449$1,741

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Beach Park	Gages Lake
Under 5	6.6%	5.8%
5 to 17	17.5%	16.2%
18 to 24	11.7%	8.4%
25 to 34	12.7%	13.7%
35 to 44	7.0%	10.7%
45 to 54	13.2%	13.3%
55 to 64	15.2%	18.3%
65 to 74	7.6%	9.1%
75 and over	8.4%	4.5%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Beach Park	Gages Lake
White (non-Hispanic)	31.8%	70.2%
Black or African American	12.5%	7.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	4.3%	5.8%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.2%	0.1%
Two or more races	1.0%	6.0%
Hispanic or Latino	50.2%	10.9%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Beach Park	Gages Lake
No high school diploma	19.3%	5.4%
High school graduate	30.8%	23.0%
Some college or associate's	34.4%	31.2%
Bachelor's degree	9.6%	26.9%
Graduate or professional degree	5.9%	13.6%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Beach Park	Gages Lake
Drove alone	77.2%	68.7%
Carpooled	10.6%	6.1%
Public transit	0.6%	2.3%
Walked	0.2%	2.8%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	10.4%	19.7%
Other means	0.9%	0.4%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Beach Park	Gages Lake
1-unit, detached	67.9%	77.6%
1-unit, attached	14.5%	10.7%
2 to 4 units	2.7%	2.3%
5 to 19 units	0.6%	2.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	7.1%
Mobile home & other	14.3%	0.3%

Poverty & households

	Beach Park	Gages Lake
Poverty rate	11.8%	5.2%
Average household size	2.93	2.63
Mean commute (minutes)	26	26
Median year structure built	1987	1984