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SheetIL-MATTOON-IL · Mattoon, IL 16,334 pop · income 16th 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 Mattoon
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Mattoon on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Lady Lake · lowest
47,260
Lady Lake · lowest
47,260 median HH income
25.8% of the leader · rank #1
Earth · near
47,303
Earth · near
47,303 median HH income
25.8% of the leader · rank #2
Carthage · near
47,304
Carthage · near
47,304 median HH income
25.8% of the leader · rank #3
Mattoon · this city
47,308
Mattoon · this city
47,308 median HH income
25.8% of the leader · rank #4
Moorefield · near
47,308
Moorefield · near
47,308 median HH income
25.8% of the leader · rank #5
Dunn · near
47,310
Dunn · near
47,310 median HH income
25.8% of the leader · rank #6
Stone Ridge · highest
183,211
Stone Ridge · highest
183,211 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 Mattoon 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: 16,334.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Mattoon - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Mattoon places in the 16th percentile for household income and the 39th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
16th
percentile, household income
8th
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
39th
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: Mattoon, IL
16,334 people live in Mattoon, Illinois - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $47,308 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 13.9%. Mattoon's housing stock carries a median value of $96,000, and the median resident age is 42.6 years. Educational attainment runs 19.5% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 53.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 32 residential building permits were authorized in Mattoon (Building Boom), up 967% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Mattoon reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1731.0 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Mattoon's yearly average temperature at 53.6°F with 41.3 inches of precipitation per year and 14.5 inches of snowfall.
Illinois tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Illinois scores 100.0 (Near Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,063 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Illinois's average monthly utility costs around $240 (state average). Workers in Mattoon report an average commute of 17.6 minutes, with 79.2% driving alone and 3.6% working from home. 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 Mattoon'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 population change to climate and hazard context to comparison shortlist to schools and households to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Mattoon, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, annual population history.
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 Mattoon?
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 13.9%, 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Mattoon?
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 1731.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 24% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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 -190 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 32 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Which cities make useful reference points for Mattoon?
Within Illinois, the closest population matches are Fairview Heights (16,255 residents, $77,960 income); Country Club Hills (16,419 residents, $77,463 income); Morton (16,503 residents, $87,760 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Lady Lake, FL (16,337 residents); Sunnyside, WA (16,329 residents); Stone Ridge, VA (16,340 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.
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.
Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Mattoon?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 53.6°F, with 41.3 inches of precipitation and 14.5 inches of annual snowfall. 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.
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.
Mean temperature
53.6°F
Annual precipitation
41.3 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
54.5
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
The NCES join finds 5 public schools within the city match. 19.5% 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.
Matched public schools
5
Bachelor's degree+
19.5%
Poverty estimate
13.9%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What does the journey to work look like in Mattoon?
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 79.2%. The reported mean trip to work is 17.6 minutes.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
3.6%
Drive alone
79.2%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 6,796 workers age 16+.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
F
City profile score · Mattoon, IL
25/100
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.
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
19.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
13.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$47,308
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
528 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Mattoon profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Bachelor's+ share: 33/100 (F) · 19.5%
Poverty rate: 25/100 (F) · 13.9%
Household income: 17/100 (F) · $47,308
Violent crime: 14/100 (F) · 528 /100k
Where Mattoon sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Mattoon'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 - Mattoon highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Mattoon, IL (this city): home $96,000, crime 1,731/100k
Sunnyside, WA : home $207,200, crime 2,867/100k
Chickasha, OK : home $113,200, crime 2,162/100k
River Falls, WI : home $299,800, crime 990/100k
Saraland, AL : home $210,500, crime 1,787/100k
Fairview Heights, IL : home $166,800, crime 3,436/100k
Country Club Hills, IL : home $180,600, crime 2,876/100k
Morton, IL : home $238,900, crime 910/100k
Westchester, IL : home $297,400, crime 681/100k
La Grange, IL : home $582,600, crime 963/100k
How does Mattoon compare to other US cities?
Here's how Mattoon stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income16% higher than other cities
Home value8% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety39% 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, Mattoon ranks #335 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 Mattoon 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 Mattoon near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Mattoon ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Mattoon only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,145 of 1,311
13th percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#873 of 1,315
34th percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#284 of 1,335
78th percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#599 of 1,336
55th 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
16th percentile nationally for median household income · 39th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Mattoon's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Mattoon'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 Mattoon's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$96,000Among the most affordablemore affordable than 92% 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
Mattoon's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#1,736 of 15,516
More affordable than 89% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#72 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.0×, Mattoon sits in the affordable band:
national rank #1,736 of 15,516 and #72 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
$47,308Mattoon, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Mattoon, 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 Mattoon, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)19.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)13.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)53.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
16,334
Median Income
$47,308
Median Home Value
$96,000
Median Age
42.6
Poverty Rate
13.9%
Labor force participation
53.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
19.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1731.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
528.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1202.6
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
53.6°F
Annual Precipitation
41.3"
Annual Snowfall
14.5"
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
Mattoon's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
16,857 residents
2021
16,882 residents
2022
16,700 residents
2023
16,642 residents
2024
16,624 residents
2025
16,667 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
32
housing units authorized
Single-Family
7
detached homes
Multifamily
25
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
3
3
0
$0.4M
2020
3
3
0
$0.4M
2021
0
0
0
-
2022
3
3
0
$0.6M
2023
26
1
25
$10.8M
2024
32
7
25
$2.8M
Permit volume increased 967% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
17.6 minutes
Drive Alone
79.2%
Carpool
13.5%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.2%
Work from Home
3.6%
Other
2.5%
Based on 6,796 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 Mattoon. 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 Mattoon 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 Mattoon sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Mattoon 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.