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SheetIL-ALGONQUIN-IL · Algonquin, IL 29,904 pop · income 91st pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Algonquin
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Algonquin on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Hazleton · lowest
43,379
Hazleton · lowest
43,379 median HH income
17.4% of the leader · rank #1
Taylor Landing · near
131,719
Taylor Landing · near
131,719 median HH income
52.7% of the leader · rank #2
Modjeska · near
131,750
Modjeska · near
131,750 median HH income
52.7% of the leader · rank #3
Algonquin · this city
131,753
Algonquin · this city
131,753 median HH income
52.7% of the leader · rank #4
Ewa Gentry · near
131,755
Ewa Gentry · near
131,755 median HH income
52.7% of the leader · rank #5
Loudonville · near
131,806
Loudonville · near
131,806 median HH income
52.7% of the leader · rank #6
Wellesley · highest
250,001
Wellesley · highest
250,001 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Algonquin on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 29,904.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Algonquin - the verdict
Algonquin ranks in the 91st percentile for household income and the 55th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
91st
percentile, household income
68th
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
55th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Algonquin, IL
Algonquin is a small city in Illinois, home to 29,904 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Algonquin report a median income of $131,753 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.4%. Typical homes in Algonquin are valued around $324,000, and the median resident age is 41.3 years. About 43.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 70.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 178 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 263% from five years earlier. Algonquin reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1238.1 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Illinois tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: the state registers 100.0 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Near Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,063 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Illinois's average monthly utility costs around $240 (state average). Natural-hazard exposure scores 54.5 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Algonquin's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from work and mobility to comparison shortlist to schools and households to housing and income to population change to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Algonquin, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, local building permits, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Algonquin?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 72.9%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Algonquin?
Within Illinois, the closest population matches are Galesburg (29,653 residents, $45,213 income); Highland Park (30,229 residents, $161,875 income); Niles (30,262 residents, $78,563 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Wellesley, MA (29,906 residents); Hazleton, PA (29,886 residents); Winter Park, FL (29,929 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
What does the education layer cover for Algonquin?
The NCES join finds 9 public schools within the city match. 43.6% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
How far does income reach against housing in Algonquin?
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Population change
Is Algonquin growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,156 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +3.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 178 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+3.9%
2025 estimate
30,824
2020 estimate
29,668
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Algonquin?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1238.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 46% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1178.6
Violent rate
59.4
Total reported rate
1238.1
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
B+
City profile score · Algonquin, IL
75/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Household income A+
$131,753
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A-
2.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime A-
59 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B+
43.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Cost of living D
100.0 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Algonquin profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 91/100 (A+) · $131,753
Poverty rate: 83/100 (A-) · 2.4%
Violent crime: 81/100 (A-) · 59 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 78/100 (B+) · 43.6%
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Where Algonquin sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Algonquin's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Algonquin highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Algonquin, IL (this city): home $324,000, crime 1,238/100k
Wellesley, MA : home $1,513,400, crime 532/100k
Hazleton, PA : home $129,000, crime 725/100k
Winter Park, FL : home $676,800, crime 2,181/100k
Greenville, TX : home $197,400, crime 1,424/100k
Paragould, AR : home $175,400, crime 3,813/100k
Galesburg, IL : home $89,800, crime 3,478/100k
Highland Park, IL : home $594,400, crime 861/100k
Niles, IL : home $350,900, crime 2,278/100k
Gurnee, IL : home $331,100, crime 2,410/100k
North Chicago, IL : home $147,800, crime 742/100k
Lake in the Hills, IL : home $296,400, crime 508/100k
How does Algonquin compare to other US cities?
Where Algonquin sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income91% higher than other cities
Home value68% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety55% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Illinois alone, Algonquin ranks #282 of 455 Illinois cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Algonquin against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Illinois only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Illinois-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Algonquin near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Algonquin ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Algonquin only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#79 of 1,311
94th percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#117 of 1,315
91st percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#1,080 of 1,335
19th percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#153 of 1,336
88th percentile in Illinois
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Illinois only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
91st percentile nationally for median household income · 55th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Algonquin's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Algonquin's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Algonquin's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$324,00032nd percentilemore affordable than 32% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Algonquin's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#3,785 of 15,516
More affordable than 76% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#330 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.5×, Algonquin sits in the affordable band:
national rank #3,785 of 15,516 and #330 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$131,753Algonquin, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Algonquin, IL median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Algonquin, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)43.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)70.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
29,904
Median Income
$131,753
Median Home Value
$324,000
Median Age
41.3
Poverty Rate
2.4%
Labor force participation
70.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
43.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1238.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
59.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1178.6
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
9
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Algonquin's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
29,668 residents
2021
29,963 residents
2022
29,949 residents
2023
30,198 residents
2024
30,528 residents
2025
30,824 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
178
housing units authorized
Single-Family
178
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
49
49
0
$6.5M
2020
119
29
90
$22.3M
2021
105
105
0
$27.6M
2022
112
112
0
$27.8M
2023
137
137
0
$33.0M
2024
178
178
0
$41.7M
Permit volume increased 263% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
72.9%
Carpool
5.0%
Public Transit
1.0%
Walk
0.8%
Work from Home
19.4%
Other
0.9%
Based on 17,075 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Illinois statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $240
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Illinois at $240 (electricity about $100 , water and sewer about $50 ).
These are Illinois statewide averages, not a meter reading for Algonquin. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Illinois's BEA cost-of-living index is 100.0 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Algonquin is $1,063/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Illinois statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 54.5 / 100 (Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Illinois statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Algonquin sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Algonquin compares to similar-size Illinois cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.