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Place dossier plate
SheetIL-MINOOKA-IL · Minooka, IL 12,632 pop · income 88th 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 Minooka
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Minooka on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Kewanee · lowest
49,668
Kewanee · lowest
49,668 median HH income
19.9% of the leader · rank #1
Thompson's St… · near
122,139
Thompson's St… · near
122,139 median HH income
48.9% of the leader · rank #2
Langhorne Man… · near
122,143
Langhorne Man… · near
122,143 median HH income
48.9% of the leader · rank #3
Minooka · this city
122,163
Minooka · this city
122,163 median HH income
48.9% of the leader · rank #4
Cochranville · near
122,188
Cochranville · near
122,188 median HH income
48.9% of the leader · rank #5
Olivet · near
122,193
Olivet · near
122,193 median HH income
48.9% of the leader · rank #6
Winnetka · highest
250,001
Winnetka · highest
250,001 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 Minooka 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: 12,632.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Minooka - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Minooka lands in the 88th percentile for household income and the 91st percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
88th
percentile, household income
63rd
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
91st
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: Minooka, IL
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 12,632 residents in Minooka, a small town within Illinois. Median household income here is $122,163 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 0.7%. Home values in Minooka run a median of $288,600, and the median resident age is 33.3 years. Educational attainment runs 29.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 71.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 6 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 89% from five years earlier. Minooka reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 340.6 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: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Illinois scores 100.0 (Near Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,063 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Illinois's average monthly utility costs around $240 (state average). Natural-hazard exposure scores 54.5 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Minooka'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 housing and income to reported crime to schools and households to population change to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Minooka, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, annual population history, matched public-school count.
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
Which cities make useful reference points for Minooka?
Within Illinois, the closest population matches are Richton Park (12,576 residents, $71,724 income); Northlake (12,547 residents, $77,564 income); Rantoul (12,515 residents, $49,821 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Ottawa, KS (12,632 residents); Sedro-Woolley, WA (12,633 residents); Blackfoot, ID (12,628 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Minooka?
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 0.7%, 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 Minooka?
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 340.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 85% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
The NCES join finds 6 public schools within the city match. 29.7% 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 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.
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 Minooka 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 +157 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 6 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
+1.2%
2025 estimate
12,899
2020 estimate
12,742
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the journey to work look like in Minooka?
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 81.3%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.7%
Work from home
11.3%
Drive alone
81.3%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 6,673 workers age 16+.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
B+
City profile score · Minooka, IL
76/100
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.
Poverty rate A+
0.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime A+
8 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income A
$122,163
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share C
29.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; 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.
Minooka profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 95/100 (A+) · 0.7%
Violent crime: 95/100 (A+) · 8 /100k
Household income: 87/100 (A) · $122,163
Bachelor's+ share: 57/100 (C) · 29.7%
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Where Minooka sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Minooka'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 - Minooka highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Minooka, IL (this city): home $288,600, crime 341/100k
Ottawa, KS : home $165,700, crime 1,260/100k
Blackfoot, ID : home $225,900, crime 1,197/100k
Wickliffe, OH : home $158,400, crime 897/100k
Richton Park, IL : home $200,400, crime 2,437/100k
Northlake, IL : home $242,400, crime 1,843/100k
Rantoul, IL : home $109,200, crime 2,324/100k
Winnetka, IL : home $1,206,300, crime 740/100k
How does Minooka compare to other US cities?
Where Minooka sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income88% higher than other cities
Home value63% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety91% 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, Minooka ranks #73 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 Minooka 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 Minooka near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Minooka ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Minooka only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#101 of 1,311
92nd percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#171 of 1,315
87th percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#1,224 of 1,335
8th percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#317 of 1,336
76th 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
88th percentile nationally for median household income · 91st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Minooka's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Minooka'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 Minooka's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$288,60037th percentilemore affordable than 37% 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
Minooka's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#3,296 of 15,516
More affordable than 79% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#257 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.4×, Minooka sits in the affordable band:
national rank #3,296 of 15,516 and #257 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
$122,163Minooka, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Minooka, 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 Minooka, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)29.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)0.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)71.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
12,632
Median Income
$122,163
Median Home Value
$288,600
Median Age
33.3
Poverty Rate
0.7%
Labor force participation
71.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
29.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
340.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
7.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
332.8
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
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Minooka's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
12,742 residents
2021
12,795 residents
2022
12,807 residents
2023
12,855 residents
2024
12,872 residents
2025
12,899 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
6
housing units authorized
Single-Family
6
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
55
55
0
$8.5M
2020
12
12
0
$2.3M
2021
15
15
0
$3.5M
2022
0
0
0
-
2023
5
5
0
$2.0M
2024
6
6
0
$1.6M
Permit volume decreased 89% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
81.3%
Carpool
5.2%
Public Transit
0.7%
Walk
0.1%
Work from Home
11.3%
Other
1.4%
Based on 6,673 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 Minooka. 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 Minooka 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 Minooka sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Minooka 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.