Fact text

  • The creator of the Little Orphan Annie comic strip, Harold Gray, actually drew the grand staircase and outer deck of his Lombard home right into the cartoons.
  • Lombard is nicknamed 'The Lilac Village' and has thrown an annual Lilac Festival every May since 1930, complete with a Lilac Queen coronation and a formal ball.
  • Plain White T's founder Tom Higgenson grew up in Lombard, so the band behind 'Hey There Delilah' has suburban Chicago roots.
  • NASA astronaut Daniel M. Tani is from Lombard, meaning this quiet Chicago suburb has literally sent someone to space.
  • Science-fiction author Timothy Zahn, the man who wrote the beloved Thrawn trilogy that brought Star Wars back to life in the 1990s, is a Lombard local.
Your
Lombard
Retirement Outlook — in 90 seconds
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Every figure mentioned is drawn from the same sourced public data shown below — and the video updates as the data does.
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43755
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Total Population
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$
86167
Median Income
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$
264300
Median Home
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16
%
Age 65+
Retirement Suitability
How
Lombard
ranks for retirees?
46
/ 100

A blended, sourced view of how this city ranks for retirees across tax, affordability, healthcare, and climate.

Tax
8
Affordability
74
Healthcare
50
Climate
68

Results

Lombard

Suitability Breakdown

Retirement tax planning
01 - Taxes

Retirement Tax Treatment

Tax
8

Illinois does not tax Social Security benefits, which helps retirees on fixed income keep more of what they've earned.

State sales tax here runs about

%.

Source · Tax Foundation
8
Retirement tax planning
02 - Income

Annuity Rates Available Here

Affordability
74

Fixed annuity rates reach up to

7

% on 5-year terms, with most landing between

5

% and

5

%.

Source · Cannex
74
Retirement tax planning
03 - Healthcare

Hospital Access & Quality

Healthcare
50

The area has

Medicare-certified hospitals, averaging a

/5 CMS quality rating.

Source · CMS Hospital Compare
Retirement tax planning
04 - Climate

Weather & Comfort

Climate
68

A

climate — summers peak near

°F, winters dip to about

°F, with roughly

″ of snow a year.

Source · NOAA Climate Normals
Retirement tax planning
05 - Risk

Natural Disaster Risk

Risk
Relatively High

FEMA's overall natural-disaster risk rating for this county on the National Risk Index.

Source · FEMA National Risk Index
Relatively High

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