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SheetIL-LAWRENCEVILLE-IL · Lawrenceville, IL 4,241 pop · income 13th pct · 5 tracts
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 Lawrenceville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Lawrenceville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Anna · lowest
36,238
Anna · lowest
36,238 median HH income
23.0% of the leader · rank #1
Wattsburg · near
44,875
Wattsburg · near
44,875 median HH income
28.4% of the leader · rank #2
Jamestown · near
44,878
Jamestown · near
44,878 median HH income
28.4% of the leader · rank #3
Washington · near
44,882
Washington · near
44,882 median HH income
28.4% of the leader · rank #4
Lawrenceville · this city
44,885
Lawrenceville · this city
44,885 median HH income
28.4% of the leader · rank #5
Piney View · near
44,886
Piney View · near
44,886 median HH income
28.4% of the leader · rank #6
Garden Ridge · highest
157,824
Garden Ridge · highest
157,824 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 Lawrenceville 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: 4,241.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Lawrenceville - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Lawrenceville lands in the 13th percentile for household income and the 97th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
13th
percentile, household income
3rd
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
97th
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: Lawrenceville, IL
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 4,241 residents in Lawrenceville, a small town within Illinois. Lawrenceville households earn a median of $44,885 annually, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 8.2%. Home values in Lawrenceville run a median of $77,600, and the median resident age is 38.1 years. About 17.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 49.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 64 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Rapid Growth), up 28% from five years earlier. Lawrenceville reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 117.2 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 55.7°F with 41.7 inches of precipitation per year.
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. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Illinois run around $240, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 54.5 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Lawrenceville'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 reported crime to population change to housing and income to comparison shortlist to within-city variation to climate and hazard context to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Lawrenceville, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Lawrenceville?
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.
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 17.6% 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Lawrenceville?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 117.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 95% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Lawrenceville?
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 Hometown (4,244 residents, $59,265 income); West Peoria (4,246 residents, $57,450 income); Shelbyville (4,248 residents, $54,400 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Farrell, PA (4,239 residents); Garden Ridge, TX (4,243 residents); Ovilla, TX (4,239 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 can 5 Census tracts reveal inside Lawrenceville?
PlainCities matches 5 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
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 Lawrenceville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +169 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +4.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 64 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 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.
2020 estimate
4,187
2025 estimate
4,356
Period change
+4.0%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Lawrenceville?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 1.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
1.7×
Home value
$77,600
Household income
$44,885
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What physical conditions frame life in Lawrenceville?
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 55.7°F, with 41.7 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Illinois is 54.5 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
54.5
Annual precipitation
41.7 in
Mean temperature
55.7°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What does the journey to work look like in Lawrenceville?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 80.8%. 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. 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.
Drive alone
80.8%
Work from home
8.2%
Public transit
1.6%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 1,752 workers age 16+.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
D
City profile score · Lawrenceville, IL
42/100
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
47 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate D
8.2%
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.
Bachelor's+ share F
17.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$44,885
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Lawrenceville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 85/100 (A) · 47 /100k
Poverty rate: 47/100 (D) · 8.2%
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Bachelor's+ share: 27/100 (F) · 17.6%
Household income: 13/100 (F) · $44,885
Where Lawrenceville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Lawrenceville'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 - Lawrenceville highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Lawrenceville, IL (this city): home $77,600, crime 117/100k
Farrell, PA : home $76,200, crime 2,543/100k
Garden Ridge, TX : home $618,100, crime 1,020/100k
Ovilla, TX : home $396,000, crime 433/100k
Lake View, AL : home $285,700, crime 336/100k
Hometown, IL : home $152,000, crime 1,742/100k
Shelbyville, IL : home $111,200, crime 287/100k
Sullivan, IL : home $95,600, crime 142/100k
Anna, IL : home $128,200, crime 3,253/100k
Sherman, IL : home $291,300, crime 197/100k
How does Lawrenceville compare to other US cities?
Where Lawrenceville sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income13% higher than other cities
Home value3% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety97% 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, Lawrenceville ranks #23 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 Lawrenceville 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 Lawrenceville near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Lawrenceville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Lawrenceville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,190 of 1,311
9th percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#1,092 of 1,315
17th percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#578 of 1,335
56th percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#692 of 1,336
48th 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
13th percentile nationally for median household income · 97th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Lawrenceville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Lawrenceville'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 Lawrenceville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$77,600Among the most affordablemore affordable than 97% 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
Lawrenceville's home-value-to-income ratio: 1.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#818 of 15,516
More affordable than 95% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#793 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 1.7×, Lawrenceville sits in the affordable band:
national rank #818 of 15,516 and #793 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
$44,885Lawrenceville, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Lawrenceville, 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 Lawrenceville, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)17.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)49.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
4,241
Median Income
$44,885
Median Home Value
$77,600
Median Age
38.1
Poverty Rate
8.2%
Labor force participation
49.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
17.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
117.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
46.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
70.3
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
55.7°F
Annual Precipitation
41.7"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Lawrenceville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
4,187 residents
2021
4,243 residents
2022
4,220 residents
2023
4,267 residents
2024
4,320 residents
2025
4,356 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
64
housing units authorized
Single-Family
64
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
15.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
50
50
0
$8.6M
2020
56
56
0
$9.7M
2021
64
64
0
$11.0M
2022
61
61
0
$10.5M
2023
58
58
0
$10.0M
2024
64
64
0
$11.0M
Permit volume increased 28% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
80.8%
Carpool
3.5%
Public Transit
1.6%
Walk
5.9%
Work from Home
8.2%
Based on 1,752 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 Lawrenceville. 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 Lawrenceville 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 Lawrenceville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Lawrenceville 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.