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SheetIL-MIDLOTHIAN-IL · Midlothian, IL 14,024 pop · income 47th 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 Midlothian
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Midlothian on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Newport · lowest
58,422
Newport · lowest
58,422 median HH income
52.0% of the leader · rank #1
Remington · near
67,870
Remington · near
67,870 median HH income
60.4% of the leader · rank #2
Summerside · near
67,870
Summerside · near
67,870 median HH income
60.4% of the leader · rank #3
Midlothian · this city
67,872
Midlothian · this city
67,872 median HH income
60.4% of the leader · rank #4
Lovejoy · near
67,872
Lovejoy · near
67,872 median HH income
60.4% of the leader · rank #5
Browndale · near
67,875
Browndale · near
67,875 median HH income
60.4% of the leader · rank #6
Wauconda · highest
112,438
Wauconda · highest
112,438 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 Midlothian 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: 14,024.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Midlothian - the verdict
Nationally, Midlothian sits in the 47th percentile for household income and the 38th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
47th
percentile, household income
43rd
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
38th
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: Midlothian, IL
14,024 people live in Midlothian, Illinois - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Midlothian report a median income of $67,872 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 10.7%. Midlothian's housing stock carries a median value of $200,300, and the median resident age is 38.9 years. 18.9% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 62.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 2 residential building permits were authorized in Midlothian (Construction Slowdown), down 50% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Midlothian reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1764.9 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: 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. Commute times here average 27.2 minutes, with 77.7% driving alone and 8.5% working from home, per Census ACS commuting 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 Midlothian'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 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 Midlothian, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, local building permits, annual population history, 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.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Midlothian?
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 3.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 10.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Midlothian?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1764.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 23% 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 Midlothian growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -407 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.9% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Midlothian?
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 Wauconda (14,010 residents, $112,438 income); Forest Park (14,000 residents, $81,323 income); Beach Park (13,988 residents, $83,069 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Allouez, WI (14,023 residents); Anderson Creek, NC (14,021 residents); Destin, FL (14,018 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.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Midlothian?
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 5 public schools within the city match. 18.9% 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.
Poverty estimate
10.7%
Bachelor's degree+
18.9%
Matched public schools
5
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What does the journey to work look like in Midlothian?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 77.7%. The reported mean trip to work is 27.2 minutes.
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
77.7%
Work from home
8.5%
Public transit
3.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 6,810 workers age 16+.
Below median income · poverty 10.7% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
100.0 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
D
City profile score · Midlothian, IL
41/100
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 D
200 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income D
$67,872
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
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.
Poverty rate F
10.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
18.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Midlothian profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 48/100 (D) · 200 /100k
Household income: 46/100 (D) · $67,872
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Poverty rate: 37/100 (F) · 10.7%
Bachelor's+ share: 31/100 (F) · 18.9%
Where Midlothian sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Midlothian'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 - Midlothian highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Midlothian, IL (this city): home $200,300, crime 1,765/100k
Smithfield, UT : home $406,300, crime 219/100k
Newport, KY : home $221,100, crime 4,167/100k
Pierre, SD : home $219,500, crime 2,496/100k
Forest Park, IL : home $293,800, crime 3,247/100k
Shiloh, IL : home $276,900, crime 809/100k
Wood Dale, IL : home $303,400, crime 1,191/100k
Chicago Ridge, IL : home $217,800, crime 2,079/100k
How does Midlothian compare to other US cities?
Here's how Midlothian stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income47% higher than other cities
Home value43% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety38% 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: Midlothian ranks #342 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 Midlothian 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 Midlothian near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Midlothian ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Midlothian only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#643 of 1,311
51st percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#353 of 1,315
73rd percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#426 of 1,335
68th percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#630 of 1,336
53rd 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
47th percentile nationally for median household income · 38th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Midlothian's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Midlothian'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 Midlothian's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$200,300Among the most affordablemore affordable than 57% 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
Midlothian's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,434 of 15,516
More affordable than 59% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#833 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.0×, Midlothian sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,434 of 15,516 and #833 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
$67,872Midlothian, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Midlothian, 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 Midlothian, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)18.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)10.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
14,024
Median Income
$67,872
Median Home Value
$200,300
Median Age
38.9
Poverty Rate
10.7%
Labor force participation
62.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
18.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1764.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
200.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1564.7
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
Midlothian's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
14,248 residents
2021
13,992 residents
2022
13,808 residents
2023
13,774 residents
2024
13,866 residents
2025
13,841 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
0.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
4
4
0
$0.6M
2020
3
3
0
$0.8M
2021
9
9
0
$2.3M
2022
1
1
0
$0.3M
2023
3
3
0
$0.9M
2024
2
2
0
$0.5M
Permit volume decreased 50% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
27.2 minutes
Drive Alone
77.7%
Carpool
9.9%
Public Transit
3.0%
Walk
1.0%
Work from Home
8.5%
Based on 6,810 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 Midlothian. 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 Midlothian 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 Midlothian sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Midlothian 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.