Channel Lake vs Fox Lake Hills

A side-by-side comparison of Channel Lake and Fox Lake Hills: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Fox Lake Hills has the higher population (2,304 vs 1,988 in Channel Lake). Fox Lake Hills has the higher median household income ($111,477 vs $63,958 in Channel Lake). Fox Lake Hills has the higher median home value ($229,700 vs $210,400 in Channel Lake).

Population, income & housing

	Channel Lake	Fox Lake Hills
Population	1,988	2,304
Median age	34.8 yrs	45.1 yrs
Median household income	$63,958	$111,477
Median home value	$210,400	$229,700
Median gross rent	$1,526	$1,514
Housing units	853	940
Homeownership rate	78.7%	88.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher	19.9%	27.1%
Unemployment rate	3.8%	8.2%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Channel Lake	Fox Lake Hills
Population	1,661 → 1,988 (+19.7%)	2,204 → 2,304 (+4.5%)
Median household income	$49,926 → $63,958 (+28.1%)	$77,686 → $111,477 (+43.5%)
Median home value	$173,900 → $210,400 (+21.0%)	$173,100 → $229,700 (+32.7%)
Median gross rent	$1,106 → $1,526 (+38.0%)	$1,376 → $1,514 (+10.0%)

Channel Lake

Population

1,6611,988

Median household income

$49,926$63,958

Median home value

$173,900$210,400

Median gross rent

$1,106$1,526

Fox Lake Hills

Population

2,2042,304

Median household income

$77,686$111,477

Median home value

$173,100$229,700

Median gross rent

$1,376$1,514

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Channel Lake	Fox Lake Hills
Under 5	12.3%	5.7%
5 to 17	14.6%	15.3%
18 to 24	3.8%	10.2%
25 to 34	19.8%	7.4%
35 to 44	11.5%	10.9%
45 to 54	6.5%	17.6%
55 to 64	17.5%	16.6%
65 to 74	9.9%	11.7%
75 and over	4.2%	4.7%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Channel Lake	Fox Lake Hills
White (non-Hispanic)	86.9%	79.0%
Black or African American	0.0%	2.3%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.6%	0.0%
Two or more races	7.9%	3.8%
Hispanic or Latino	4.6%	14.9%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Channel Lake	Fox Lake Hills
No high school diploma	5.2%	2.5%
High school graduate	38.9%	33.3%
Some college or associate's	36.0%	37.2%
Bachelor's degree	16.7%	20.4%
Graduate or professional degree	3.2%	6.6%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Channel Lake	Fox Lake Hills
Drove alone	75.2%	77.3%
Carpooled	8.9%	5.3%
Public transit	0.0%	0.8%
Walked	1.4%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	14.5%	15.9%
Other means	0.0%	0.8%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Channel Lake	Fox Lake Hills
1-unit, detached	98.5%	100.0%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	1.5%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Channel Lake	Fox Lake Hills
Poverty rate	19.4%	4.0%
Average household size	2.53	2.57
Mean commute (minutes)	33	40
Median year structure built	1962	1977