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SheetIL-MOUNT-PROSPECT-IL · Mount Prospect, IL 55,648 pop · income 80th 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 Mount Prospect
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Mount Prospect on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
New Brunswick · lowest
60,248
New Brunswick · lowest
60,248 median HH income
50.4% of the leader · rank #1
Pleasant Prai… · near
103,903
Pleasant Prai… · near
103,903 median HH income
86.9% of the leader · rank #2
Wainiha · near
103,906
Wainiha · near
103,906 median HH income
86.9% of the leader · rank #3
Ceresco · near
103,906
Ceresco · near
103,906 median HH income
86.9% of the leader · rank #4
Summit View · near
103,910
Summit View · near
103,910 median HH income
86.9% of the leader · rank #5
Mount Prospect · this city
103,911
Mount Prospect · this city
103,911 median HH income
86.9% of the leader · rank #6
Wheaton · highest
119,566
Wheaton · highest
119,566 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 Prospect 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: 55,648.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Mount Prospect - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Mount Prospect places in the 80th percentile for household income and the 65th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
80th
percentile, household income
75th
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
65th
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 Prospect, IL
55,648 people live in Mount Prospect, Illinois - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Mount Prospect brings in $103,911 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.3%. Typical homes in Mount Prospect are valued around $377,000, and the median resident age is 41.7 years. Educational attainment runs 48.6% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 64.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 3 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 97% from five years earlier. Mount Prospect reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 977.2 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: the state registers 100.0 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Near Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,063 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Illinois's average monthly utility costs around $240 (state average). The average commute for Mount Prospect workers runs 22.7 minutes, with 69.9% driving alone and 15.8% working from home. 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 Mount Prospect'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 population change to housing and income to schools and households to reported crime to comparison shortlist to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Mount Prospect, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, local building permits, matched public-school count, 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. Population change
Is Mount Prospect 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 -1,304 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 3 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
How far does income reach against housing in Mount Prospect?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.3%, 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. 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.
What does the education layer cover for Mount Prospect?
The NCES join finds 8 public schools within the city match. 48.6% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Mount Prospect?
Within Illinois, the closest population matches are Berwyn (55,888 residents, $75,235 income); Tinley Park (55,007 residents, $103,819 income); Oak Lawn (57,098 residents, $82,493 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Apple Valley, MN (55,696 residents); Olympia, WA (55,583 residents); Coeur d'Alene, ID (55,558 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.
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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Mount Prospect?
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 977.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 57% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
887.5
Violent rate
89.7
Total reported rate
977.2
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the journey to work look like in Mount Prospect?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 69.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 22.7 minutes.
Public transit
4.3%
Work from home
15.8%
Drive alone
69.9%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 28,460 workers age 16+.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
B-
City profile score · Mount Prospect, IL
69/100
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 A-
48.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B+
$103,911
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime B
90 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate B
4.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better 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.
Mount Prospect profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 83/100 (A-) · 48.6%
Household income: 79/100 (B+) · $103,911
Violent crime: 73/100 (B) · 90 /100k
Poverty rate: 70/100 (B) · 4.3%
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Where Mount Prospect sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Mount Prospect'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 Prospect highlighted among 13 peers.Read the chart values
Mount Prospect, IL (this city): home $377,000, crime 977/100k
Apple Valley, MN : home $354,200, crime 1,883/100k
Olympia, WA : home $457,900, crime 4,000/100k
Coeur d'Alene, ID : home $451,600, crime 1,197/100k
New Brunswick, NJ : home $316,800, crime 3,325/100k
Arcadia, CA : home $1,336,500, crime 3,051/100k
Southaven, MS : home $214,800, crime 2,329/100k
Berwyn, IL : home $286,000, crime 1,252/100k
Tinley Park, IL : home $289,000, crime 1,354/100k
Oak Lawn, IL : home $267,900, crime 1,907/100k
Wheaton, IL : home $447,700, crime 591/100k
Orland Park, IL : home $349,400, crime 1,126/100k
Oak Park, IL : home $456,300, crime 3,931/100k
How does Mount Prospect compare to other US cities?
Mount Prospect measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income80% higher than other cities
Home value75% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety65% 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 Prospect ranks #240 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 Prospect 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 Prospect near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Mount Prospect ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Mount Prospect only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#193 of 1,311
85th percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#76 of 1,315
94th percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#898 of 1,335
32nd percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#122 of 1,336
91st 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
80th percentile nationally for median household income · 65th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Mount Prospect's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Mount Prospect'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 Prospect's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$377,00025th 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
Mount Prospect's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,462 of 15,516
More affordable than 39% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#246 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.6×, Mount Prospect sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,462 of 15,516 and #246 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
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
$103,911Mount Prospect, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Mount Prospect, 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 Prospect, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)48.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
55,648
Median Income
$103,911
Median Home Value
$377,000
Median Age
41.7
Poverty Rate
4.3%
Labor force participation
64.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
48.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
977.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
89.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
887.5
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
8
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Mount Prospect's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
56,699 residents
2021
55,660 residents
2022
54,890 residents
2023
54,772 residents
2024
55,490 residents
2025
55,395 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
3
housing units authorized
Single-Family
3
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
102
7
95
$19.4M
2020
3
3
0
$2.1M
2021
14
7
7
$4.2M
2022
7
7
0
$3.8M
2023
157
5
152
$13.5M
2024
3
3
0
$2.5M
Permit volume decreased 97% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
22.7 minutes
Drive Alone
69.9%
Carpool
7.6%
Public Transit
4.3%
Walk
1.1%
Work from Home
15.8%
Other
1.3%
Based on 28,460 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 Prospect. 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 Prospect 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 Prospect sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Mount Prospect 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.