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Place dossier plate
SheetIL-MOLINE-IL · Moline, IL 42,235 pop · income 41st pct · 43 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 Moline
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Moline on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Danville · lowest
42,778
Danville · lowest
42,778 median HH income
25.0% of the leader · rank #1
Stanberry · near
63,958
Stanberry · near
63,958 median HH income
37.4% of the leader · rank #2
Texico · near
63,958
Texico · near
63,958 median HH income
37.4% of the leader · rank #3
Noonan · near
63,958
Noonan · near
63,958 median HH income
37.4% of the leader · rank #4
Sweetwater · near
63,958
Sweetwater · near
63,958 median HH income
37.4% of the leader · rank #5
Moline · this city
63,959
Moline · this city
63,959 median HH income
37.4% of the leader · rank #6
Linton Hall · highest
170,989
Linton Hall · highest
170,989 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 Moline 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: 42,235.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Moline - the verdict
Moline ranks in the 41st percentile for household income and the 9th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
41st
percentile, household income
24th
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
9th
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: Moline, IL
42,235 people live in Moline, Illinois - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $63,959 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 12.4%. Home values in Moline run a median of $141,900, and the median resident age is 38.7 years. 29.1% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 60.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 71 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 97% from five years earlier. Moline's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 3718.3 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as 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). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,063 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Illinois run around $240, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Commute times here average 17.4 minutes, with 78.3% driving alone and 7.6% working from home, per Census ACS commuting 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 Moline'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 within-city variation to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Moline, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for Moline?
Within Illinois, the closest population matches are Belleville (41,722 residents, $60,529 income); Buffalo Grove (42,824 residents, $129,820 income); Romeoville (40,996 residents, $100,022 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Danville, VA (42,239 residents); Bullhead City, AZ (42,193 residents); Peachtree Corners, GA (42,184 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 Moline?
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 12.4%, 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 Moline?
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 3718.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 63% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
PlainCities matches 43 Census tracts to this city.
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 Moline?
The NCES join finds 13 public schools within the city match. 29.1% 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
13
Bachelor's degree+
29.1%
Poverty estimate
12.4%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
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 -502 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 71 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
42,362
2020 estimate
42,864
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the journey to work look like in Moline?
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 78.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 17.4 minutes.
Public transit
1.9%
Work from home
7.6%
Drive alone
78.3%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 19,686 workers age 16+.
Below median income · poverty 12.4% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
100.0 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
F
City profile score · Moline, IL
37/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share C
29.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income D
$63,959
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
12.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
384 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Moline profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 56/100 (C) · 29.1%
Household income: 40/100 (D) · $63,959
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Poverty rate: 30/100 (F) · 12.4%
Violent crime: 23/100 (F) · 384 /100k
Where Moline sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Moline'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 - Moline highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Moline, IL (this city): home $141,900, crime 3,718/100k
Danville, VA : home $110,200, crime 3,199/100k
Bullhead City, AZ : home $196,900, crime 2,648/100k
Beverly, MA : home $621,900, crime 579/100k
Belleville, IL : home $131,000, crime 2,344/100k
Buffalo Grove, IL : home $392,900, crime 738/100k
Romeoville, IL : home $245,200, crime 1,163/100k
Lombard, IL : home $321,200, crime 1,717/100k
Bartlett, IL : home $350,500, crime 419/100k
DeKalb, IL : home $202,900, crime 2,907/100k
How does Moline compare to other US cities?
Here's how Moline stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income41% higher than other cities
Home value24% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety9% 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: Moline ranks #438 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 Moline 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 Moline near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Moline ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Moline only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#733 of 1,311
44th percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#534 of 1,315
59th percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#342 of 1,335
74th percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#326 of 1,336
75th 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
41st percentile nationally for median household income · 9th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Moline's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Moline'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 Moline's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$141,900Among the most affordablemore affordable than 76% 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
Moline's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#2,555 of 15,516
More affordable than 84% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#157 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.2×, Moline sits in the affordable band:
national rank #2,555 of 15,516 and #157 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
$63,959Moline, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Moline, 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 Moline, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)29.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)12.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
42,235
Median Income
$63,959
Median Home Value
$141,900
Median Age
38.7
Poverty Rate
12.4%
Labor force participation
60.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
29.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3718.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
384.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3334.2
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
13
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Moline's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
42,864 residents
2021
42,433 residents
2022
42,025 residents
2023
42,012 residents
2024
42,232 residents
2025
42,362 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
71
housing units authorized
Single-Family
12
detached homes
Multifamily
59
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
36
14
22
$2.9M
2020
40
15
25
$3.2M
2021
45
17
28
$3.6M
2022
49
13
36
$4.5M
2023
48
12
36
$4.4M
2024
71
12
59
$6.7M
Permit volume increased 97% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
17.4 minutes
Drive Alone
78.3%
Carpool
10.0%
Public Transit
1.9%
Walk
1.3%
Work from Home
7.6%
Other
0.9%
Based on 19,686 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 Moline. 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 Moline 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 Moline sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Moline 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.