Side-by-side metrics and state or size-class ranks use the same Census and FBI fields shown on this profile. Results stay in the URL so you can bookmark or share them.
Place dossier plate
SheetIL-PEORIA-IL · Peoria, IL 112,126 pop · income 33rd pct · 49 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 Peoria
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Peoria on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Lansing · lowest
52,170
Lansing · lowest
52,170 median HH income
47.5% of the leader · rank #1
Clarion · near
58,702
Clarion · near
58,702 median HH income
53.5% of the leader · rank #2
Wimauma · near
58,708
Wimauma · near
58,708 median HH income
53.5% of the leader · rank #3
Peoria · this city
58,716
Peoria · this city
58,716 median HH income
53.5% of the leader · rank #4
Two Rivers · near
58,716
Two Rivers · near
58,716 median HH income
53.5% of the leader · rank #5
South Congaree · near
58,726
South Congaree · near
58,726 median HH income
53.5% of the leader · rank #6
Murrieta · highest
109,780
Murrieta · highest
109,780 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 Peoria 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: 112,126.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Peoria - the verdict
Peoria ranks in the 33rd percentile for household income and the 3rd percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
33rd
percentile, household income
27th
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
3rd
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: Peoria, IL
112,126 people live in Peoria, Illinois - a mid-sized U.S. city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $58,716 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 13.6%. Typical homes in Peoria are valued around $149,500, and the median resident age is 35.8 years. About 38.0% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 57.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 36 residential building permits were authorized in Peoria (Growing), up 9% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Peoria's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 5629.3 crimes per 100,000 residents, above 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: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Illinois scores 100.0 (Near Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,063 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Illinois run around $240, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Workers in Peoria report an average commute of 15.7 minutes, with 75.9% driving alone and 10.5% working from home. 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 Peoria'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 work and mobility to schools and households to housing and income to reported crime to population change to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Peoria, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares, annual population history, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for Peoria?
Within Illinois, the closest population matches are Springfield (113,714 residents, $65,537 income); Elgin (114,106 residents, $88,316 income); Waukegan (88,919 residents, $70,578 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Pompano Beach, FL (112,212 residents); Downey, CA (111,793 residents); Lansing, MI (112,546 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 does the journey to work look like in Peoria?
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 75.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 15.7 minutes.
The NCES join finds 34 public schools within the city match. 38.0% 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.
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 49 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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Peoria?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 13.6%, 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.
Household income
$58,716
Home value
$149,500
Value / income
2.5×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Peoria?
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 5629.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 147% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
4284.4
Violent rate
1344.9
Total reported rate
5629.3
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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 -1,975 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 36 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
-1.7%
2025 estimate
110,920
2020 estimate
112,895
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Below median income · poverty 13.6% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
100.0 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
F
City profile score · Peoria, IL
32/100
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 B
38.0%
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.
Household income F
$58,716
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
13.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
1,345 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Peoria profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 72/100 (B) · 38.0%
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Household income: 33/100 (F) · $58,716
Poverty rate: 25/100 (F) · 13.6%
Violent crime: 0/100 (F) · 1,345 /100k
Where Peoria sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Peoria'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 - Peoria highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Peoria, IL (this city): home $149,500, crime 5,629/100k
Lansing, MI : home $119,400, crime 3,844/100k
Las Cruces, NM : home $217,400, crime 5,593/100k
Murrieta, CA : home $606,900, crime 1,127/100k
Pueblo, CO : home $230,900, crime 6,366/100k
Springfield, IL : home $155,200, crime 5,813/100k
Elgin, IL : home $252,400, crime 1,369/100k
Waukegan, IL : home $177,600, crime 2,060/100k
Champaign, IL : home $199,700, crime 2,781/100k
Cicero, IL : home $236,000, crime 1,581/100k
How does Peoria compare to other US cities?
Here's how Peoria stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income33% higher than other cities
Home value27% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety3% 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: Peoria ranks #447 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 Peoria 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 Peoria near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Peoria ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Peoria only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#867 of 1,311
34th percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#504 of 1,315
62nd percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#294 of 1,335
78th percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#210 of 1,336
84th 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
33rd percentile nationally for median household income · 3rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Peoria's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Peoria'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 Peoria's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$149,500Among the most affordablemore affordable than 73% 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
Peoria's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,237 of 15,516
More affordable than 73% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#42 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 2.5×, Peoria sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,237 of 15,516 and #42 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
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
$58,716Peoria, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Peoria, 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 Peoria, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)38.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)13.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)57.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
112,126
Median Income
$58,716
Median Home Value
$149,500
Median Age
35.8
Poverty Rate
13.6%
Labor force participation
57.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
38.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
5629.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
1344.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
4284.4
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
34
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Peoria's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
112,895 residents
2021
112,077 residents
2022
110,814 residents
2023
110,719 residents
2024
110,940 residents
2025
110,920 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Growing
Total Permits (2024)
36
housing units authorized
Single-Family
36
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
33
33
0
$11.7M
2020
35
35
0
$11.7M
2021
51
51
0
$15.6M
2022
39
39
0
$14.5M
2023
35
35
0
$12.5M
2024
36
36
0
$13.0M
Permit volume increased 9% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
15.7 minutes
Drive Alone
75.9%
Carpool
9.1%
Public Transit
1.3%
Walk
2.2%
Work from Home
10.5%
Other
1.0%
Based on 49,359 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 Peoria. 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 Peoria 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 Peoria sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Peoria 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.