Gages Lake is a census-designated place (CDP) in Warren Township, Lake County, Illinois, United States. The population was 10,637 at the 2020 census.
History
The body of water known as Gages Lake was estimated to have formed nearly 10,000 years ago during the most recent ice age.
In 1838 a schoolhouse was built in the area that would in time become Warren Township High School in 1917. In the 1840s a man known as John Gage and his brother George Gage began sellings parcels of land surrounding the lake which he called the North Grange Resort. Sometime prior to the developments in the 1920s, Richard Warren Sears (no relation to the name of the township) had purchased and owned the lake/surrounding land.
The census-designated place has received fire and police service from the neighboring village of Grayslake since the 1960s.
As part of the Wildwood Park District, in the 1970s the Gages Lake Conservation Committee (GLCC) was formed which still exists to this day.
Geography The CDP is located in central Lake County in southwestern Warren Township and is bordered to the north and east by the village of Gurnee, to the northwest by the village of Third Lake, and to the west by the village of Grayslake. The water body of Gages Lake is in the western part of the CDP and extends into the village of Third Lake. The CDP includes the communities of Idlewild and Wildwood.
U.S. Route 45 runs along the western edge of the community, leading south to Mundelein and north to Bristol, Wisconsin. Illinois Route 120 runs along the southern edge, leading east to Waukegan and west to Hainesville. The CDP is northwest of downtown Chicago.
According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Gages Lake has a total area of , of which (or 94.00%) is land and (or 6.00%) is water.
Major streets Washington Street Gages Lake Road Hunt Club Road Almond Road
Demographics
Racial and ethnic composition +Gages Lake CDP, Illinois – Racial and ethnic compositionRace / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic)Pop 2000Pop 2010% 2000% 2010White alone (NH)9,3178,1217,23189.46%79.63%67.98%Black or African American alone (NH)2063675051.98%3.60%4.75%Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)1917270.18%0.17%0.25%Asian alone (NH)3236088183.10%5.96%7.69%Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone (NH)1560.01%0.05%0.06%Other race alone (NH)719460.07%0.19%0.43%Mixed race or Multiracial (NH)1061895001.02%1.85%4.70%Hispanic or Latino (any race)4368721,5044.19%8.55%14.14%Total10,41510,19810,637100.00%100.00%100.00%
2020 census As of the 2020 census, Gages Lake had a population of 10,637. The median age was 41.5 years. 21.9% of residents were under the age of 18 and 13.5% of residents were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 97.6 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 95.4 males age 18 and over.
100.0% of residents lived in urban areas, while 0.0% lived in rural areas.
There were 4,015 households in Gages Lake, of which 31.8% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 57.5% were married-couple households, 15.1% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 22.2% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 22.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
There were 4,175 housing units, of which 3.8% were vacant. The homeowner vacancy rate was 1.3% and the rental vacancy rate was 5.3%.
Income and poverty The median income for a household in the CDP was $93,837, and the median income for a family was $108,021. Males had a median income of $59,679 versus $41,719 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $45,673. About 4.5% of families and 6.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10.6% of those under age 18 and 2.0% of those age 65 or over.
Education All areas are in the Woodland Community Consolidated School District 50 and the Warren Township High School District 121. - Text list
Warren Township High School Almond Campus (grades 9-10) is in Gages Lake CDP; it has a Gurnee postal address.Compare to:
See also List of census-designated places in Illinois
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