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SheetIL-GILBERTS-IL · Gilberts, IL 8,389 pop · income 87th 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 Gilberts
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Gilberts on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Atmore · lowest
33,104
Atmore · lowest
33,104 median HH income
14.1% of the leader · rank #1
Beechwood · near
119,688
Beechwood · near
119,688 median HH income
50.9% of the leader · rank #2
Miami Heights · near
119,709
Miami Heights · near
119,709 median HH income
50.9% of the leader · rank #3
Gilberts · this city
119,719
Gilberts · this city
119,719 median HH income
50.9% of the leader · rank #4
Stonebridge · near
119,732
Stonebridge · near
119,732 median HH income
50.9% of the leader · rank #5
Cataula · near
119,737
Cataula · near
119,737 median HH income
50.9% of the leader · rank #6
Long Grove · highest
235,368
Long Grove · highest
235,368 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 Gilberts 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: 8,389.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Gilberts - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Gilberts places in the 87th percentile for household income and the 95th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
87th
percentile, household income
69th
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
95th
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: Gilberts, IL
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 8,389 residents in Gilberts, a small town within Illinois. The typical household in Gilberts brings in $119,719 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.1%. Home values in Gilberts run a median of $330,100, and the median resident age is 40.2 years. About 48.7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 76.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 15 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Slowing), down 25% from five years earlier. Gilberts reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 246.9 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects 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). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,063 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $240 across Illinois, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 54.5 out of 100 (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Gilberts'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 housing and income to reported crime to comparison shortlist to schools and households 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 Gilberts, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, matched public-school count, 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.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Gilberts?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.1%, 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. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Gilberts?
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 246.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 89% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Gilberts?
Within Illinois, the closest population matches are Crete (8,382 residents, $97,984 income); Hampshire (8,351 residents, $107,774 income); Maryville (8,280 residents, $100,813 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Atmore, AL (8,389 residents); Winnemucca, NV (8,391 residents); Lock Haven, PA (8,386 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.
The NCES join finds 1 public school within the city match. 48.7% 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 matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
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 Gilberts?
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 72.2%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.3%
Work from home
21.0%
Drive alone
72.2%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 4,797 workers age 16+.
Is Gilberts 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 +713 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +8.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 15 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
+8.5%
2025 estimate
9,082
2020 estimate
8,369
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
B+
City profile score · Gilberts, 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.
Violent crime A
34 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income A
$119,719
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A-
48.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B+
3.1%
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.
Gilberts profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 88/100 (A) · 34 /100k
Household income: 86/100 (A) · $119,719
Bachelor's+ share: 83/100 (A-) · 48.7%
Poverty rate: 78/100 (B+) · 3.1%
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Where Gilberts sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Gilberts'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 - Gilberts highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Gilberts, IL (this city): home $330,100, crime 247/100k
Atmore, AL : home $128,900, crime 4,955/100k
Winnemucca, NV : home $290,500, crime 2,020/100k
Lock Haven, PA : home $127,500, crime 1,817/100k
Sitka, AK : home $442,100, crime 831/100k
Westwego, LA : home $168,600, crime 2,518/100k
Crete, IL : home $209,100, crime 1,075/100k
Hampshire, IL : home $316,200, crime 388/100k
Maryville, IL : home $253,100, crime 348/100k
Rockton, IL : home $222,100, crime 891/100k
Harrisburg, IL : home $84,800, crime 691/100k
How does Gilberts compare to other US cities?
Here's how Gilberts stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income87% higher than other cities
Home value69% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety95% 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, Gilberts ranks #54 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 Gilberts 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 Gilberts near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Gilberts ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Gilberts only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#112 of 1,311
91st percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#112 of 1,315
91st percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#1,011 of 1,335
24th percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#121 of 1,336
91st 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
87th percentile nationally for median household income · 95th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Gilberts's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Gilberts'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 Gilberts's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$330,10031st percentilemore affordable than 31% 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
Gilberts's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,342 of 15,516
More affordable than 66% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,652 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.8×, Gilberts sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,342 of 15,516 and #4,652 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$119,719Gilberts, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Gilberts, 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 Gilberts, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)48.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)76.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,389
Median Income
$119,719
Median Home Value
$330,100
Median Age
40.2
Poverty Rate
3.1%
Labor force participation
76.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
48.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
246.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
33.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
213.3
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
1
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Gilberts's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,369 residents
2021
8,371 residents
2022
8,627 residents
2023
8,804 residents
2024
9,086 residents
2025
9,082 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
15
housing units authorized
Single-Family
15
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
20
20
0
$2.2M
2020
15
11
4
$2.1M
2021
113
5
108
$18.7M
2022
61
59
2
$7.4M
2023
95
95
0
$12.9M
2024
15
15
0
$1.8M
Permit volume decreased 25% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
72.2%
Carpool
4.1%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
21.0%
Other
2.4%
Based on 4,797 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 Gilberts. 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 Gilberts 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 Gilberts sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Gilberts 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.