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SheetIL-WOODSTOCK-IL · Woodstock, IL 26,316 pop · income 65th 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 Woodstock
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Woodstock on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Elmira · lowest
43,089
Elmira · lowest
43,089 median HH income
33.6% of the leader · rank #1
Diamond Sprin… · near
83,288
Diamond Sprin… · near
83,288 median HH income
65.0% of the leader · rank #2
Woodhaven · near
83,291
Woodhaven · near
83,291 median HH income
65.0% of the leader · rank #3
Woodstock · this city
83,293
Woodstock · this city
83,293 median HH income
65.0% of the leader · rank #4
Hemlock Farms · near
83,293
Hemlock Farms · near
83,293 median HH income
65.0% of the leader · rank #5
Chical · near
83,304
Chical · near
83,304 median HH income
65.0% of the leader · rank #6
South Pasadena · highest
128,105
South Pasadena · highest
128,105 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 Woodstock 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: 26,316.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Woodstock - the verdict
Woodstock ranks in the 65th percentile for household income and the 79th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
65th
percentile, household income
51st
percentile, home value
18th
percentile, median rent
79th
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: Woodstock, IL
26,316 people live in Woodstock, Illinois - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Woodstock report a median income of $83,293 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.8%. Woodstock's housing stock carries a median value of $231,100, and the median resident age is 37.1 years. 31.4% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 67.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 6 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 89% from five years earlier. Woodstock reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 637.4 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). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,063 monthly. 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 Woodstock'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 schools and households to population change to reported crime to housing and income 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 Woodstock, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, local building permits, 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.
1. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Woodstock?
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.
The NCES join finds 11 public schools within the city match. 31.4% 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.
Is Woodstock growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +94 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 6 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Woodstock?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 637.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 72% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Woodstock?
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.
Within Illinois, the closest population matches are Lockport (26,228 residents, $113,252 income); Edwardsville (26,543 residents, $92,671 income); Granite City (26,670 residents, $60,490 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Leland, NC (26,307 residents); Eureka, CA (26,302 residents); South Pasadena, CA (26,297 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.
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 Woodstock?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.8×
Home value
$231,100
Household income
$83,293
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in Woodstock?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 76.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
Drive alone
76.7%
Work from home
11.3%
Public transit
0.3%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 13,879 workers age 16+.
Above median income · poverty 5.8% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
100.0 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Illinois average
C
City profile score · Woodstock, IL
59/100
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 B
93 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income C+
$83,293
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C+
5.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C+
31.4%
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.
Woodstock profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 72/100 (B) · 93 /100k
Household income: 63/100 (C+) · $83,293
Poverty rate: 60/100 (C+) · 5.8%
Bachelor's+ share: 60/100 (C+) · 31.4%
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Where Woodstock sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Woodstock'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 - Woodstock highlighted among 13 peers.Read the chart values
Woodstock, IL (this city): home $231,100, crime 637/100k
Leland, NC : home $358,800, crime 1,080/100k
Eureka, CA : home $375,800, crime 4,187/100k
South Pasadena, CA : home $1,545,100, crime 2,723/100k
Elmira, NY : home $88,200, crime 4,684/100k
South Salt Lake, UT : home $390,400, crime 6,641/100k
Elk River, MN : home $338,300, crime 1,096/100k
Lockport, IL : home $298,800, crime 660/100k
Edwardsville, IL : home $286,700, crime 713/100k
Granite City, IL : home $99,800, crime 3,108/100k
Batavia, IL : home $358,000, crime 843/100k
Vernon Hills, IL : home $384,800, crime 1,525/100k
Oak Forest, IL : home $247,800, crime 527/100k
How does Woodstock compare to other US cities?
Here's how Woodstock stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income65% higher than other cities
Home value51% pricier than other cities
Median rent18% pricier than other cities
Safety79% 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: Woodstock ranks #146 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 Woodstock 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 Woodstock near the bottom of Illinois's cities
Among the 1,336 Illinois cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Woodstock ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Woodstock only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#366 of 1,311
72nd percentile in Illinois
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,336
0th percentile in Illinois
Median Home Value
#273 of 1,315
79th percentile in Illinois
Poverty Rate
#778 of 1,335
41st percentile in Illinois
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#288 of 1,336
78th 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
65th percentile nationally for median household income · 79th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Woodstock's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Woodstock'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 Woodstock's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$231,10049th percentilemore affordable than 49% 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
Woodstock's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,443 of 15,516
More affordable than 65% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#627 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.8×, Woodstock sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,443 of 15,516 and #627 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
$83,293Woodstock, IL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Woodstock, 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 Woodstock, IL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)31.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)67.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
26,316
Median Income
$83,293
Median Home Value
$231,100
Median Age
37.1
Poverty Rate
5.8%
Labor force participation
67.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
31.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
637.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
93.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
544.1
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
11
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Woodstock's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
25,646 residents
2021
25,805 residents
2022
25,710 residents
2023
25,785 residents
2024
25,872 residents
2025
25,740 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
6
housing units authorized
Single-Family
6
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
53
53
0
$7.1M
2020
57
57
0
$7.3M
2021
65
65
0
$8.4M
2022
53
53
0
$6.9M
2023
50
50
0
$6.5M
2024
6
6
0
$2.8M
Permit volume decreased 89% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
76.7%
Carpool
8.6%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
1.8%
Work from Home
11.3%
Other
1.3%
Based on 13,879 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 Woodstock. 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 Woodstock 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 Woodstock sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Woodstock 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.