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Place dossier plate
SheetIL-INVERNESS-IL · Inverness, IL 7,541 pop · income 99th 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 Inverness
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Inverness on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Salem · lowest
57,083
Salem · lowest
57,083 median HH income
26.4% of the leader · rank #1
Bronxville · near
215,726
Bronxville · near
215,726 median HH income
99.8% of the leader · rank #2
Inverness · this city
215,810
Inverness · this city
215,810 median HH income
99.8% of the leader · rank #3
Searingtown · near
215,817
Searingtown · near
215,817 median HH income
99.8% of the leader · rank #4
Heath · near
216,160
Heath · near
216,160 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
Parker · highest
216,179
Parker · highest
216,179 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
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 Inverness 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: 7,541.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Inverness - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Inverness lands in the 99th percentile for household income and the 89th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
99th
percentile, household income
93rd
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
89th
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: Inverness, IL
7,541 people live in Inverness, Illinois - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Inverness brings in $215,810 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.2%. Home values in Inverness run a median of $704,100, and the median resident age is 54.3 years. About 68.8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 55.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 2 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 60% from five years earlier. Inverness reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 416.0 crimes per 100,000 residents, below the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than 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. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,063 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Illinois run around $240, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. 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 Inverness'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 comparison shortlist to work and mobility to reported crime to population change to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Inverness, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, local building permits.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Inverness?
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.
Within Illinois, the closest population matches are North Riverside (7,495 residents, $80,753 income); Park City (7,631 residents, $62,875 income); Jerseyville (7,432 residents, $71,623 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Hughson, CA (7,541 residents); Independence, OH (7,543 residents); Gresham Park, GA (7,544 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Inverness?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 69.2%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Inverness?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 416.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 82% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Is Inverness growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -178 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 2 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Inverness?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.3×
Home value
$704,100
Household income
$215,810
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
A-
City profile score · Inverness, IL
83/100
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+
$215,810
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
68.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime A+
14 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate A-
2.2%
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.
Inverness profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $215,810
Bachelor's+ share: 97/100 (A+) · 68.8%
Violent crime: 93/100 (A+) · 14 /100k
Poverty rate: 84/100 (A-) · 2.2%
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Where Inverness sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Inverness'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 - Inverness highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Inverness, IL (this city): home $704,100, crime 416/100k
Hughson, CA : home $480,100, crime 581/100k
Independence, OH : home $305,500, crime 1,358/100k
Monahans, TX : home $159,000, crime 1,751/100k
North Riverside, IL : home $295,100, crime 5,742/100k
Jerseyville, IL : home $124,200, crime 1,711/100k
Salem, IL : home $99,800, crime 1,531/100k
Princeton, IL : home $131,300, crime 1,684/100k
Round Lake Park, IL : home $157,900, crime 181/100k
How does Inverness compare to other US cities?
Here's how Inverness stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income99% higher than other cities
Home value93% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety89% 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: Inverness ranks #90 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 Inverness 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 Inverness near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Inverness ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Inverness only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#14 of 1,311
99th percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#17 of 1,315
99th percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#1,099 of 1,335
17th percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#40 of 1,336
97th 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
99th percentile nationally for median household income · 89th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Inverness's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Inverness'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 Inverness's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$704,1007th percentilemore affordable than 7% 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
Inverness's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,959 of 15,516
More affordable than 49% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#6,533 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.3×, Inverness sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,959 of 15,516 and #6,533 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
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
$215,810Inverness, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Inverness, 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 Inverness, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)68.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)55.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
7,541
Median Income
$215,810
Median Home Value
$704,100
Median Age
54.3
Poverty Rate
2.2%
Labor force participation
55.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
68.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
416.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
13.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
402.2
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.
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Inverness's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
7,596 residents
2021
7,463 residents
2022
7,374 residents
2023
7,371 residents
2024
7,426 residents
2025
7,418 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
2
housing units authorized
Single-Family
2
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
5
5
0
$3.5M
2020
1
1
0
$0.4M
2021
7
7
0
$10.0M
2022
5
5
0
$6.7M
2023
3
3
0
$3.3M
2024
2
2
0
$1.7M
Permit volume decreased 60% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
69.2%
Carpool
1.4%
Public Transit
3.7%
Walk
1.2%
Work from Home
22.8%
Other
1.7%
Based on 3,349 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 Inverness. 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 Inverness 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 Inverness sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Inverness 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, 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.