13,854 people live in Channahon, where the median age is 38.2 and the average individual income is $48,171. Data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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| Dining | 0.25 miles | 8 reviews | 3.4/5 stars | |
| Dining | 0.25 miles | 5 reviews | 4.2/5 stars | |
| Dining · $ | 0.29 miles | 36 reviews | 2/5 stars | |
| Dining · $$ | 0.31 miles | 2 reviews | 4/5 stars | |
| Dining | 0.31 miles | 4 reviews | 4.8/5 stars | |
| Dining · $$ | 0.31 miles | 139 reviews | 4.1/5 stars | |
| Dining · $ | 0.34 miles | 26 reviews | 2.4/5 stars | |
| Dining | 0.39 miles | 0 reviews | 0/5 stars | |
| Dining | 0.39 miles | 0 reviews | 0/5 stars | |
| Dining | 0.4 miles | 14 reviews | 4.6/5 stars | |
| Dining | 0.44 miles | 2 reviews | 5/5 stars | |
| Dining · $ | 0.45 miles | 28 reviews | 2.2/5 stars | |
| Dining | 0.46 miles | 2 reviews | 5/5 stars | |
| Dining | 0.49 miles | 20 reviews | 2/5 stars | |
| Nightlife | 0.39 miles | 31 reviews | 3.1/5 stars | |
| Beauty | 0.3 miles | 0 reviews | 0/5 stars | |
| Beauty | 0.31 miles | 21 reviews | 3/5 stars | |
| Beauty | 0.32 miles | 27 reviews | 2.4/5 stars | |
| Beauty | 0.44 miles | 11 reviews | 3.1/5 stars | |
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Channahon has 4,419 households, with an average household size of 3.13. Data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. Here’s what the people living in Channahon do for work — and how long it takes them to get there. Data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. 13,854 people call Channahon home. The population density is 880 and the largest age group is Data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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By Chris Piercy, REALTOR® with Real People Realty. Facts checked October 31, 2026, and reviewed every Saturday.
I'm Chris Piercy, a REALTOR® with Real People Realty, and my office is in Mokena. I was the buyer's agent on one Channahon sale, 25641 S Oakview Court, which sold for $275,000 in October 2025. This page has Channahon's numbers, its schools, its trains and highways, and what the village, its park district and its school district are changing now.
Questions about a Channahon home? Call or text me at (815) 205-0395.
I was the buyer's agent on this Channahon sale.[24]
Home | Role | Sold | Sale price |
|---|---|---|---|
25641 S Oakview Court | Buyer's agent | October 14, 2025 | $275,000 |
Channahon had an estimated 14,530 people on July 1, 2025, up from 13,383 at the 2020 Census.[1] Of those, 9,969 lived in the Will County part of the village and 4,561 in the Grundy County part.[2] The other Census figures below cover 2020 to 2024. Data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Village of Channahon.
14,530
People, July 1, 2025[1]
90.1%
Homes lived in by their owners[1]
$327,900
Median value of owner-occupied homes[1]
4,547
Households, 3.06 people each[1]
30.3 minutes
Average trip to work[1]
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Parks the Channahon Park District operates, the Village says[3]
The median home value comes from a five-year Census survey in which owners estimate their own home's value. It is not a recent sale price.[1] The Village says Channahon was incorporated in 1961,[4] and that its name comes from a Potawatomi word meaning "meeting of the waters," for the point where the Des Plaines, DuPage and Kankakee rivers come together to form the Illinois River.[3] Channahon State Park, established in 1932, is the official trailhead of the Illinois & Michigan Canal State Trail and home to historic Locks 6 and 7; the Forgotten Warrior Memorial in the photo at the top of this page is inside it.[3] The Village expects Lake Michigan water to arrive in 2030 and says homes on existing wells will stay on wells.[5]
Channahon is not on Metra's or Amtrak's station lists.[6][7] Metra's Rock Island and Heritage Corridor lines end at Joliet, which is also an Amtrak stop.[6][7] The Village says Channahon is served by Interstates 80 and 55, with interchanges at Interstate 80 and Interstate 55, Interstate 55 and Route 6, and Interstate 55 and Bluff Road.[9]
Station | Trains | Parking |
|---|---|---|
Joliet station | Metra Rock Island and Heritage Corridor lines to Chicago, and Amtrak[6][7] | $1.50 a day at the City of Joliet's Chicago/Marion Street lot[8] |
The Village has partnered with Pace on a curb-to-curb dial-a-ride service for Will County residents, booked with Pace at 1-800-244-4410 at least one day ahead. The Village also lists the Grundy Transit System, which serves anywhere in Grundy County and areas of Joliet three times a day, with rides booked 2 to 3 business days ahead at 1-888-786-0862.[10] No Pace bus route lists Channahon among the places it stops, and no Pace stop is in Grundy County.[25]
The Village says most of Channahon's populated area is in Channahon School District 17, Minooka Community Consolidated School District 201 or Troy Community Consolidated School District 30-C, and that the village also crosses several other districts.[11] For high school, the Village's list names Coal City, Joliet Township, Minooka Community, Morris Community and Wilmington.[12] A home's school districts go by its exact address, so check that address with the districts before counting on a school.
Name | Category | Grades | Address |
|---|---|---|---|
Channahon School District 17 | District office | Preschool to 8th grade[14] | 24949 S. Tryon Street, Channahon[13] |
NB Galloway Elementary | Elementary | Preschool to 2nd grade[14] | 24805 W. Roberts Road, Channahon[13] |
Pioneer Path | Elementary | 3rd and 4th grade[14] | 24920 S. Sage Street, Channahon[13] |
Three Rivers School | Elementary | 5th and 6th grade[14] | 24150 S. Ford Road, Channahon[13] |
Channahon Junior High School | Junior high | 7th and 8th grade[14] | 24917 W. Sioux Drive, Channahon[13] |
Minooka Community Consolidated School District 201 | District office | Preschool to 8th grade[14] | 305 W. Church Street, Minooka[14] |
Troy Community Consolidated School District 30-C | District office | 5800 Theodore Drive, Plainfield[14] | |
Minooka Community High School District 111 | High school | 9th to 12th grade[14] | South Campus, 26655 W. Eames Street, Channahon; Central Campus, 301 S. Wabena Avenue, Minooka[15] |
These come from the village, park district, school district and county documents themselves. Each one says what the documents say and nothing more.
Project | Category | What the documents say |
|---|---|---|
License plate reader camera on McEvilly Road | Agreements | On October 5, 2026, the Village Board approved a three-year agreement with Will County that lets one existing automated license plate reader camera stay in place along eastbound McEvilly Road, according to the Village's meeting recap, which is not the official minutes.[17][18] At the same meeting, the Police Department showed its new Flock Transparency Portal, where the public can see the cameras in use, retention policies, searches and data sharing.[17] The Will County Public Works and Transportation Committee's agenda for November 4, 2026 lists the County's resolution to authorize the agreement.[30] The copy of the agreement in the committee's packet is signed by the Village, dated October 5, 2026, and gives a term of three years upon passage and approval by the Will County Board.[31] |
Route 6 Phase I engineering study | Roads | Answering a resident's question about traffic on Route 6 at the October 5, 2026 Village Board meeting, the Village said IDOT is completing a Phase I engineering study and design for Route 6 from the former Caterpillar facility in Joliet to Route 47 in Morris. The recap gives no cost or schedule.[17] |
Heritage Crossing Field House HVAC | Repairs | The Park District's September 28, 2026 board agenda included a recommendation to hire the low bidder, Omega Plumbing, Heating & Cooling, to replace 3 HVAC units at Heritage Crossing Field House for $59,000. The Park District has not posted minutes showing the vote.[20] It describes the field house, at 24935 W. Sioux Drive, as a cooperative venture with Channahon School District 17.[21] |
RL Community Park parking lots | Parks | The same agenda included a recommendation to hire Wolf's Sealcoating to sealcoat the parking lots at RL Community Park for $26,995. No minutes show the vote yet.[20] |
Heritage Crossing lower roof | Repairs | The minutes of School District 17's September 28, 2026 board meeting say Park District leaders contacted the district in early September about replacing the lower roof at Heritage Crossing because of constant leaks. The total cost of the project is $73,963. The Park District asked the district to contribute because the district's HVAC system is in that area. The minutes say that part of the roof is entirely on the Park District's parcel and that the condo agreement and the 2003 intergovernmental agreement have no provisions on roof repairs or replacement. The Board directed administration to tell the Park District that District 17 is not willing to contribute.[27] The district's agenda for that meeting listed "Fieldhouse HVAC/Lower Roof Section Park District Emergency Replacement" under the business office report.[19] |
Pioneer Path 1923 roof | Repairs | On September 28, 2026, the School District 17 board directed administration to replace the entire 1923 section of the Pioneer Path roof in summer 2027, according to the minutes. The minutes say roofing contractors and the insurance adjuster or carrier did not recommend waiting past that summer.[27] The August 31, 2026 minutes say insurance will cover only the damaged section and that the Roof Asset Management Plan projected the cost at $296,500.[29] The district's October 26, 2026 agenda listed a vote on the project authorization and an update on Pioneer Path roof and classroom storm damage. The agenda does not show the vote, and no minutes of that meeting are posted.[28] |
Accessible Communities Plan | Sidewalks | On September 21, 2026, consultants from Oates and Associates, working for CMAP, presented the Village's Accessible Communities Plan to the Committee of the Whole. They put the work found in the Village's self-evaluation at $12.4 million to $12.5 million to make the Village compliant, including five miles of major barriers to access at $323,000 per mile. In the discussion the plan was called a planning document for future spending and a federal legal requirement that now also counts in the ranking of applications for surface transportation program money. The minutes show no vote.[22] The Village Board's October 19, 2026 agenda included approval of announcing the opening of a 30-day comment period for the plan. The Village has not posted minutes or a meeting recap showing the vote.[26] |
Summit MBE LLC license amendment | State license | At the September 21, 2026 Committee of the Whole meeting, the Village shared a state notice that Summit MBE LLC had applied to amend its radioactive material license, for industrial use, at 25915 South Frontage Road, by ExxonMobil south of the river. The notice came from IEMA, the Office of Homeland Security, which issues the license if the company meets its rules.[22] The Village says the site is not in the Village of Channahon, but nearby.[23] |
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