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SheetIL-SILVIS-IL · Silvis, IL 7,939 pop · income 46th 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 Silvis
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Silvis on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Moundsville · lowest
48,590
Moundsville · lowest
48,590 median HH income
27.0% of the leader · rank #1
Coachella · near
67,558
Coachella · near
67,558 median HH income
37.6% of the leader · rank #2
Silvis · this city
67,569
Silvis · this city
67,569 median HH income
37.6% of the leader · rank #3
Booker · near
67,569
Booker · near
67,569 median HH income
37.6% of the leader · rank #4
Wade · near
67,574
Wade · near
67,574 median HH income
37.6% of the leader · rank #5
Carbondale · near
67,578
Carbondale · near
67,578 median HH income
37.6% of the leader · rank #6
Lincolnshire · highest
179,735
Lincolnshire · highest
179,735 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 Silvis 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: 7,939.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Silvis - the verdict
Nationally, Silvis sits in the 46th percentile for household income and the 8th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
46th
percentile, household income
31st
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
8th
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: Silvis, IL
7,939 people live in Silvis, Illinois - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Silvis households earn a median of $67,569 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 7.5%. Home values in Silvis run a median of $161,300, and the median resident age is 47.4 years. 16.8% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 54.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 13 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 41% from five years earlier. Silvis's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 3865.2 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, above the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures 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. 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. 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 Silvis'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 housing and income to reported crime to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to schools and households to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Silvis, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, annual population history, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares.
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.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Silvis?
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 7.5%, 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 Silvis?
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 3865.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 69% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
What does the journey to work look like in Silvis?
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 81.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Silvis?
Within Illinois, the closest population matches are Lincolnshire (7,937 residents, $179,735 income); South Beloit (7,930 residents, $81,836 income); Broadview (7,898 residents, $60,139 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Glenside, PA (7,941 residents); Three Rivers, MI (7,936 residents); Lexington, TN (7,943 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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Silvis?
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 16.8% 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
3
Bachelor's degree+
16.8%
Poverty estimate
7.5%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population was unchanged by +0 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 13 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
+0.0%
2025 estimate
7,979
2020 estimate
7,979
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Below median income · poverty 7.5% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
100.0 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
D
City profile score · Silvis, IL
42/100
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.
Poverty rate C-
7.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income D
$67,569
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime D
242 /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.
Bachelor's+ share F
16.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Silvis profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 50/100 (C-) · 7.5%
Household income: 46/100 (D) · $67,569
Violent crime: 42/100 (D) · 242 /100k
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Bachelor's+ share: 25/100 (F) · 16.8%
Where Silvis sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Silvis'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 - Silvis highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Silvis, IL (this city): home $161,300, crime 3,865/100k
Lexington, TN : home $173,200, crime 2,400/100k
Wagoner, OK : home $138,800, crime 2,677/100k
Lincolnshire, IL : home $625,800, crime 962/100k
South Beloit, IL : home $160,800, crime 1,182/100k
West Dundee, IL : home $342,900, crime 1,117/100k
Island Lake, IL : home $241,900, crime 589/100k
Oak Brook, IL : home $867,900, crime 6,388/100k
How does Silvis compare to other US cities?
Here's how Silvis stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income46% higher than other cities
Home value31% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety8% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Illinois alone, Silvis ranks #439 of 455 Illinois cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Silvis 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 Silvis near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Silvis ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Silvis only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#651 of 1,311
50th percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#451 of 1,315
66th percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#644 of 1,335
51st percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#741 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
46th percentile nationally for median household income · 8th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Silvis's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Silvis'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 Silvis's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$161,300Among the most affordablemore affordable than 69% 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
Silvis's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#3,415 of 15,516
More affordable than 78% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,118 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.4×, Silvis sits in the affordable band:
national rank #3,415 of 15,516 and #3,118 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
$67,569Silvis, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Silvis, 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 Silvis, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)16.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)7.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)54.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
7,939
Median Income
$67,569
Median Home Value
$161,300
Median Age
47.4
Poverty Rate
7.5%
Labor force participation
54.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
16.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3865.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
241.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3623.6
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
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Silvis's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
7,979 residents
2021
7,945 residents
2022
7,888 residents
2023
7,902 residents
2024
7,956 residents
2025
7,979 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
13
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1
detached homes
Multifamily
12
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
22
22
0
$3.2M
2020
29
2
27
$4.1M
2021
16
6
10
$3.2M
2022
16
5
11
$3.0M
2023
13
3
10
$2.4M
2024
13
1
12
$2.2M
Permit volume decreased 41% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
81.7%
Carpool
13.4%
Public Transit
2.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
3.0%
Based on 3,758 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 Silvis. 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 Silvis 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 Silvis sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Silvis 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.