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Channel Lake CDP, Illinois: commercial real estate data.
Channel Lake CDP is a Census CDP of 2,052 people across 1.80 square miles of land, in Lake County. Median household income is $68,250, 81.2 percent of occupied homes are owned.
50 sourced place values · tier FULL · 6 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
Channel Lake
What Channel Lake is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area1.8 sq mi
- Water area0.6 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,137
- County holding the largest share of its areaLake County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Channel Lake
How many people live in Channel Lake
- Population2,052
- Median age39.4 plus or minus 13.4
- Population under 18462 plus or minus 192
- Share under 1822.5 percent plus or minus 8.3
- Population 65 and over305 plus or minus 81
- Share 65 and over14.9 percent
- Households796
- Family households575 plus or minus 118
- Share of households that are families72.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Channel Lake
Income and work in Channel Lake
- Median household income$68,250 plus or minus $25,914
- Per capita income$34,597
- Civilian labor force982 plus or minus 223
- Employed930 plus or minus 223
- Unemployed52 plus or minus 45
- Unemployment rate5.3 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Adults 25 and over1,542
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher96.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher24.8 percent plus or minus 5.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.2 percent plus or minus 2.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Channel Lake
Housing in Channel Lake
- Housing units887
- Occupied units796
- Vacant units91 plus or minus 73
- Vacancy rate10.3 percent plus or minus 8.1
- Owner occupied646 plus or minus 149
- Renter occupied150 plus or minus 68
- Ownership rate81.2 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$223,000 plus or minus $52,877
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,584
- Annual rent as a share of median income27.9 percent plus or minus 11.2
- Single family units871
- Share single family98.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more16 plus or minus 23
- Share in buildings of two or more1.8 percent plus or minus 2.5
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1964
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Channel Lake
How Channel Lake gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute711 plus or minus 229
- Commuting under 15 minutes267 plus or minus 110
- Share commuting under 15 minutes37.6 percent plus or minus 9.6
- Commuting 30 minutes or more287 plus or minus 106
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more40.4 percent
- Drove alone72.5 percent plus or minus 17.3
- Carpooled3.4 percent plus or minus 2.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.1 percent plus or minus 1.7
- Worked from home23.1 percent plus or minus 8.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lake County, not Channel Lake
Lake County context, not Channel Lake figures
These are Lake County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Channel Lake measurements.
- Establishments in Lake County20,076
- Employment at those establishments, Lake County337,069
- Covered employment, Lake County329,354
- Average annual pay, Lake County$91,042
- Average weekly wage, Lake County$1,751
- Housing units permitted, Lake County1,042
- Of those, single family, Lake County531
- County product, 2024, Lake County$82,868,798,000
- County product change over the prior year, Lake County3.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Lake County$132,863
Every figure in this section is published for Lake County as a whole and is not a measurement of Channel Lake. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Channel Lake questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Channel Lake, Illinois?
2,052, in 796 households. Channel Lake CDP covers 1.80 square miles of land, which is 1,137 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Channel Lake in?
Lake County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Channel Lake?
$68,250. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $223,000. Median gross rent is $1,584 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Channel Lake figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Lake County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Channel Lake.
Is zoning published for Channel Lake?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.