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SheetIL-MOUNT-CARMEL-IL · Mount Carmel, IL 6,892 pop · income 14th pct · 4 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 Mount Carmel
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Mount Carmel on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Shamokin · lowest
36,438
Shamokin · lowest
36,438 median HH income
35.5% of the leader · rank #1
Clarks Hill · near
45,875
Clarks Hill · near
45,875 median HH income
44.7% of the leader · rank #2
Dozier · near
45,882
Dozier · near
45,882 median HH income
44.7% of the leader · rank #3
Springfield · near
45,883
Springfield · near
45,883 median HH income
44.7% of the leader · rank #4
Mount Carmel · this city
45,884
Mount Carmel · this city
45,884 median HH income
44.7% of the leader · rank #5
Derby Acres · near
45,893
Derby Acres · near
45,893 median HH income
44.8% of the leader · rank #6
Oyster Bay · highest
102,540
Oyster Bay · highest
102,540 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 Mount Carmel 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: 6,892.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Mount Carmel - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Mount Carmel places in the 14th percentile for household income and the 81st percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
14th
percentile, household income
6th
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
81st
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: Mount Carmel, IL
Mount Carmel is a small town in Illinois, home to 6,892 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Mount Carmel households earn a median of $45,884 annually, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 11.8%. Mount Carmel's housing stock carries a median value of $88,500, and the median resident age is 43.9 years. Educational attainment runs 16.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 50.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 2 residential building permits were authorized in Mount Carmel (Construction Slowdown), down 93% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Mount Carmel reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 599.2 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. 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 Mount Carmel'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 within-city variation to comparison shortlist to reported crime to schools and households to work and mobility to housing and income to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Mount Carmel, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, annual population history, commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Within-city variation
What can 4 Census tracts reveal inside Mount Carmel?
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Mount Carmel?
Within Illinois, the closest population matches are Mendota (6,915 residents, $58,939 income); Calumet Park (6,836 residents, $57,389 income); Chester (6,830 residents, $74,673 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Hurricane, WV (6,891 residents); Shamokin, PA (6,890 residents); Napili-Honokowai, HI (6,897 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Mount Carmel?
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 599.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 74% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
What does the education layer cover for Mount Carmel?
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 16.7% 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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Mount Carmel?
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 79.4%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
1.6%
Drive alone
79.4%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 2,789 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Mount Carmel?
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 1.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 11.8%, 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.
Household income
$45,884
Home value
$88,500
Value / income
1.9×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Is Mount Carmel growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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 -258 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -3.7% 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.
Period change
-3.7%
2025 estimate
6,723
2020 estimate
6,981
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
F
City profile score · Mount Carmel, IL
35/100
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 C+
135 /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.
Poverty rate F
11.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
16.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$45,884
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Mount Carmel profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 62/100 (C+) · 135 /100k
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Poverty rate: 33/100 (F) · 11.8%
Bachelor's+ share: 25/100 (F) · 16.7%
Household income: 15/100 (F) · $45,884
Where Mount Carmel sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Mount Carmel'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 - Mount Carmel highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Mount Carmel, IL (this city): home $88,500, crime 599/100k
Hurricane, WV : home $190,400, crime 1,362/100k
Shamokin, PA : home $57,400, crime 1,154/100k
Ocean City, MD : home $373,700, crime 9,787/100k
Huntingdon, PA : home $189,400, crime 736/100k
Mendota, IL : home $121,100, crime 508/100k
Calumet Park, IL : home $180,800, crime 4,510/100k
Chester, IL : home $107,800, crime 313/100k
Stickney, IL : home $236,000, crime 730/100k
Litchfield, IL : home $100,500, crime 3,366/100k
Murphysboro, IL : home $79,600, crime 3,466/100k
How does Mount Carmel compare to other US cities?
Here's how Mount Carmel stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income14% higher than other cities
Home value6% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety81% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Illinois, Mount Carmel ranks #137 of 455 Illinois cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Mount Carmel 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 Mount Carmel near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Mount Carmel ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Mount Carmel only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,176 of 1,311
10th percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#958 of 1,315
27th percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#368 of 1,335
72nd percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#747 of 1,336
44th 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
14th percentile nationally for median household income · 81st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Mount Carmel's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Mount Carmel'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 Mount Carmel's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$88,500Among the most affordablemore affordable than 94% 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
Mount Carmel's home-value-to-income ratio: 1.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#1,401 of 15,516
More affordable than 91% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,349 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 1.9×, Mount Carmel sits in the affordable band:
national rank #1,401 of 15,516 and #1,349 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$45,884Mount Carmel, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Mount Carmel, 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 Mount Carmel, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)16.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)11.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)50.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
6,892
Median Income
$45,884
Median Home Value
$88,500
Median Age
43.9
Poverty Rate
11.8%
Labor force participation
50.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
16.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
599.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
134.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
464.3
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
Mount Carmel's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
6,981 residents
2021
6,925 residents
2022
6,822 residents
2023
6,822 residents
2024
6,796 residents
2025
6,723 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
0.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
27
2
25
$1.2M
2020
0
0
0
-
2021
4
4
0
$0.6M
2022
4
4
0
$1.6M
2023
0
0
0
-
2024
2
2
0
$0.3M
Permit volume decreased 93% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
79.4%
Carpool
13.3%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
3.5%
Work from Home
1.6%
Other
2.2%
Based on 2,789 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 Mount Carmel. 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 Mount Carmel 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 Mount Carmel sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Mount Carmel 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.