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Highwood city, Illinois: commercial real estate data.
Highwood city is a Census city of 5,301 people across 0.72 square miles of land, in Lake County. Median household income is $107,875, 56.0 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 7 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.6 m.
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Highwood
What Highwood is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.72 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land7,363
- 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.
Highwood
How many people live in Highwood
- Population5,301
- Median age41.0
- Population under 181,152 plus or minus 333
- Share under 1821.7 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Population 65 and over1,141 plus or minus 323
- Share 65 and over21.5 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Households2,025
- Family households1,436
- Share of households that are families70.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Highwood
Income and work in Highwood
- Median household income$107,875
- Per capita income$51,301 plus or minus $11,322
- Civilian labor force2,933
- Employed2,757
- Unemployed176 plus or minus 106
- Unemployment rate6.0 percent plus or minus 3.6
- Adults 25 and over3,511
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher80.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher39.1 percent plus or minus 9.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree17.6 percent plus or minus 6.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Highwood
Housing in Highwood
- Housing units2,076
- Occupied units2,025
- Vacant units51 plus or minus 52
- Vacancy rate2.5 percent plus or minus 2.5
- Owner occupied1,133 plus or minus 259
- Renter occupied892 plus or minus 224
- Ownership rate56.0 percent plus or minus 11.9
- Median owner-occupied home value$405,400 plus or minus $120,494
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,900
- Annual rent as a share of median income21.1 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Single family units1,170 plus or minus 249
- Share single family56.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more897 plus or minus 271
- Share in buildings of two or more43.2 percent plus or minus 12.5
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1969
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Highwood
How Highwood gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute2,347
- Commuting under 15 minutes543 plus or minus 356
- Share commuting under 15 minutes23.1 percent plus or minus 14.6
- Commuting 30 minutes or more552 plus or minus 250
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more23.5 percent plus or minus 9.8
- Drove alone57.6 percent
- Carpooled22.1 percent plus or minus 11.4
- Public transport3.3 percent plus or minus 2.7
- Walked1.8 percent plus or minus 1.7
- Worked from home15.2 percent plus or minus 7.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Highwood
SBA loans in Highwood (7(a))
- Approvals7
- Gross approval$1,581,800
- Average approval$225,971
- Median approval$105,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$535,000
- Largest approval$535,000
- Jobs supported42
- Jobs per approval6.0
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more14.3 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders5
- Distinct industries by NAICS7
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 1 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Highwood
SBA loans in Highwood (504)
- Approvals5
- Gross approval$1,999,000
- Average approval$399,800
- Median approval$248,000
- Largest approval$811,000
- Jobs supported29
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs1
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Highwood
Flood risk in Highwood
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number171033
- Currently effective map date(NSFHA)
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Lake County, not Highwood
Lake County context, not Highwood 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 Highwood 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 Highwood. 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.
- 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
Highwood questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Highwood, Illinois?
5,301, in 2,025 households. Highwood city covers 0.72 square miles of land, which is 7,363 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Highwood 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 Highwood?
$107,875. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $405,400. Median gross rent is $1,900 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Highwood businesses?
7 7(a) approvals totalling $1.6 m, across 5 lenders, median approval $105,000, plus 5 504 approvals worth $2.0 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Highwood, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Highwood borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Highwood. only 1 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Is Highwood in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Highwood appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 171033, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Highwood 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 Highwood.
Is zoning published for Highwood?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.