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SheetIL-COUNTRY-CLUB-HILLS-IL · Country Club Hills, IL 16,419 pop · income 59th 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 Country Club Hills
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Country Club Hills on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Mattoon · lowest
47,308
Mattoon · lowest
47,308 median HH income
19.9% of the leader · rank #1
Appleton · near
77,450
Appleton · near
77,450 median HH income
32.6% of the leader · rank #2
Thatcher · near
77,455
Thatcher · near
77,455 median HH income
32.6% of the leader · rank #3
Country Club… · this city
77,463
Country Club… · this city
77,463 median HH income
32.6% of the leader · rank #4
Sartell · near
77,465
Sartell · near
77,465 median HH income
32.6% of the leader · rank #5
Cragsmoor · near
77,467
Cragsmoor · near
77,467 median HH income
32.6% of the leader · rank #6
Rye · highest
237,727
Rye · highest
237,727 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 Country Club Hills 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: 16,419.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Country Club Hills - the verdict
Country Club Hills ranks in the 59th percentile for household income and the 17th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
59th
percentile, household income
37th
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
17th
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: Country Club Hills, IL
16,419 people live in Country Club Hills, Illinois - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Country Club Hills households earn a median of $77,463 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 7.4%. Home values in Country Club Hills run a median of $180,600, and the median resident age is 38.5 years. Educational attainment runs 27.6% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 57.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 0 residential units authorized here in 2024 (No Permits). Country Club Hills's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 2875.8 in FBI UCR data, above 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: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Illinois at 100.0 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Near Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,063 monthly. 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 Country Club Hills'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 schools and households to housing and income to comparison shortlist to reported crime to work and mobility to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Country Club Hills, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, annual population history, local building permits, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates.
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.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Country Club Hills?
The NCES join finds 5 public schools within the city match. 27.6% 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 Country Club Hills?
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 7.4%, 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Country Club Hills?
Within Illinois, the closest population matches are Morton (16,503 residents, $87,760 income); Mattoon (16,334 residents, $47,308 income); Westchester (16,524 residents, $103,561 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Ukiah, CA (16,419 residents); Jasper, IN (16,421 residents); Three Lakes, FL (16,426 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 can the FBI record say about safety in Country Club Hills?
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 2875.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 26% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Country Club Hills?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 70.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
4.0%
Work from home
12.4%
Drive alone
70.6%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 7,409 workers age 16+.
Is Country Club Hills growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -497 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -3.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 0 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
-3.0%
2025 estimate
16,215
2020 estimate
16,712
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 7.4% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
100.0 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
D
City profile score · Country Club Hills, IL
46/100
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 C
$77,463
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share C-
27.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate C-
7.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
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.
Violent crime F
329 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Country Club Hills profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 57/100 (C) · $77,463
Bachelor's+ share: 54/100 (C-) · 27.6%
Poverty rate: 50/100 (C-) · 7.4%
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Violent crime: 29/100 (F) · 329 /100k
Where Country Club Hills sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Country Club Hills'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 - Country Club Hills highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Country Club Hills, IL (this city): home $180,600, crime 2,876/100k
Ukiah, CA : home $448,100, crime 1,923/100k
Jasper, IN : home $203,300, crime 726/100k
Rye, NY : home $1,785,400, crime 267/100k
Crawfordsville, IN : home $134,100, crime 828/100k
Morton, IL : home $238,900, crime 910/100k
Mattoon, IL : home $96,000, crime 1,731/100k
Westchester, IL : home $297,400, crime 681/100k
Fairview Heights, IL : home $166,800, crime 3,436/100k
Marion, IL : home $145,300, crime 3,399/100k
How does Country Club Hills compare to other US cities?
Where Country Club Hills sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income59% higher than other cities
Home value37% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety17% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Illinois and the picture shifts: Country Club Hills ranks #407 of 455 Illinois cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Country Club Hills 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 Country Club Hills near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Country Club Hills ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Country Club Hills only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#439 of 1,311
67th percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#407 of 1,315
69th percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#652 of 1,335
50th percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#352 of 1,336
73rd 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
59th percentile nationally for median household income · 17th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Country Club Hills's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Country Club Hills'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 Country Club Hills's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$180,600Among the most affordablemore affordable than 63% 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
Country Club Hills's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#3,130 of 15,516
More affordable than 80% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#230 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.3×, Country Club Hills sits in the affordable band:
national rank #3,130 of 15,516 and #230 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
$77,463Country Club Hills, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Country Club Hills, 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 Country Club Hills, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)27.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)7.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)57.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
16,419
Median Income
$77,463
Median Home Value
$180,600
Median Age
38.5
Poverty Rate
7.4%
Labor force participation
57.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
27.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2875.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
329.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2546.4
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
5
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Country Club Hills's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
16,712 residents
2021
16,410 residents
2022
16,178 residents
2023
16,140 residents
2024
16,242 residents
2025
16,215 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
Total Permits (2024)
0
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
0
0
0
-
2020
0
0
0
-
2021
0
0
0
-
2022
0
0
0
-
2023
0
0
0
-
2024
0
0
0
-
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
70.6%
Carpool
6.1%
Public Transit
4.0%
Walk
0.5%
Work from Home
12.4%
Other
6.4%
Based on 7,409 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 Country Club Hills. 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 Country Club Hills 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 Country Club Hills sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Country Club Hills 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.