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Place dossier plate
SheetIL-MOKENA-IL · Mokena, IL 19,906 pop · income 90th pct
Nearest income peer: Ahuimanu, HI (+ $11 income $)
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 Mokena
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Mokena on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Harvey · lowest
41,091
Harvey · lowest
41,091 median HH income
23.9% of the leader · rank #1
Windsor · near
129,004
Windsor · near
129,004 median HH income
75.0% of the leader · rank #2
Mokena · this city
129,017
Mokena · this city
129,017 median HH income
75.0% of the leader · rank #3
Ahuimanu · near
129,028
Ahuimanu · near
129,028 median HH income
75.0% of the leader · rank #4
Lindenhurst · near
129,033
Lindenhurst · near
129,033 median HH income
75.0% of the leader · rank #5
Eastport · near
129,034
Eastport · near
129,034 median HH income
75.0% of the leader · rank #6
Agoura Hills · highest
171,944
Agoura Hills · highest
171,944 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 Mokena 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: 19,906.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Mokena - the verdict
Mokena ranks in the 90th percentile for household income and the 71st percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
90th
percentile, household income
75th
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
71st
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: Mokena, IL
Mokena is a small town in Illinois, home to 19,906 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Mokena households earn a median of $129,017 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.1%. Typical homes in Mokena are valued around $377,100, and the median resident age is 44.1 years. Educational attainment runs 44.5% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 67.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 27 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Slowing), down 23% from five years earlier. Mokena reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 821.3 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: 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. Workers in Mokena report an average commute of 26.9 minutes, with 73.0% driving alone and 14.9% 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 Mokena'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 population change to work and mobility to reported crime to housing and income to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Mokena, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, commute-mode shares, 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.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Mokena?
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 Harvey (19,831 residents, $41,091 income); Crest Hill (19,754 residents, $71,408 income); Lake Zurich (19,727 residents, $139,959 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Lincolnia, VA (19,913 residents); Plainview, TX (19,893 residents); Claremore, OK (19,921 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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +39 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 27 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
What does the journey to work look like in Mokena?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 73.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 26.9 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Mokena?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 821.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 64% 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.
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 Mokena?
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 2.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.9×
Home value
$377,100
Household income
$129,017
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
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 4 public schools within the city match. 44.5% 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.
Poverty estimate
3.1%
Bachelor's degree+
44.5%
Matched public schools
4
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
B
City profile score · Mokena, IL
72/100
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+
$129,017
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B+
44.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B+
3.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime B
101 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
Mokena profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 90/100 (A+) · $129,017
Bachelor's+ share: 79/100 (B+) · 44.5%
Poverty rate: 78/100 (B+) · 3.1%
Violent crime: 70/100 (B) · 101 /100k
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Where Mokena sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Mokena'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 - Mokena highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Mokena, IL (this city): home $377,100, crime 821/100k
Plainview, TX : home $107,800, crime 2,054/100k
Claremore, OK : home $172,500, crime 1,913/100k
Agoura Hills, CA : home $1,072,200, crime 1,019/100k
Harvey, IL : home $86,100, crime 2,218/100k
Crest Hill, IL : home $222,600, crime 1,089/100k
Lake Zurich, IL : home $418,300, crime 1,272/100k
Evergreen Park, IL : home $255,700, crime 5,957/100k
Homewood, IL : home $210,500, crime 2,277/100k
Frankfort, IL : home $461,600, crime 701/100k
How does Mokena compare to other US cities?
Here's how Mokena stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income90% higher than other cities
Home value75% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety71% 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: Mokena ranks #200 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 Mokena 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 Mokena near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Mokena ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Mokena only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#83 of 1,311
94th percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#75 of 1,315
94th percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#1,011 of 1,335
24th percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#147 of 1,336
89th 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
90th percentile nationally for median household income · 71st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Mokena's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Mokena'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 Mokena's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$377,10025th percentilemore affordable than 25% 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
Mokena's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,268 of 15,516
More affordable than 60% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#802 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.9×, Mokena sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,268 of 15,516 and #802 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
$129,017Mokena, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Mokena, 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 Mokena, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)44.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)67.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
19,906
Median Income
$129,017
Median Home Value
$377,100
Median Age
44.1
Poverty Rate
3.1%
Labor force participation
67.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
44.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
821.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
101.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
719.9
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
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Mokena's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
19,858 residents
2021
19,877 residents
2022
19,792 residents
2023
19,838 residents
2024
19,917 residents
2025
19,897 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
27
housing units authorized
Single-Family
27
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
35
35
0
$13.5M
2020
35
35
0
$11.5M
2021
37
37
0
$14.9M
2022
18
18
0
$7.0M
2023
17
17
0
$11.2M
2024
27
27
0
$12.2M
Permit volume decreased 23% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
26.9 minutes
Drive Alone
73.0%
Carpool
4.1%
Public Transit
4.9%
Walk
1.9%
Work from Home
14.9%
Other
1.2%
Based on 10,796 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 Mokena. 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 Mokena 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 Mokena sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Mokena 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.