What is the population of Atlanta city?

Atlanta city has 1,738 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #538 of 1,462 in Illinois.

What is the median household income in Atlanta city?

Median household income in Atlanta city is $64,091 a year, 18.4% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Atlanta city?

Median gross rent is $823 a month and the median home value is $123,400, so rent absorbs about 15.4% of median household income.

Is Atlanta city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 1.9× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Atlanta city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 15.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Atlanta, IL population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Atlanta, Illinois (Atlanta, IL — Census place “Atlanta city”) is 1,738 residents, ranking #538 of 1462 places in Illinois. Median household income is $64,091, the median home is worth $123,400 and median gross rent runs $823 a month. Looking for the Atlanta Illinois ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Atlanta, IL: 61723.

Population: 1,738Atlanta city residents
Median household income: $64,091Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $123,400Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $823Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 37.7 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 82.3%Owner-occupied households

Atlanta ZIP codes (Illinois)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Atlanta.

The Atlanta IL ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

61723

What the numbers mean in Atlanta city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Atlanta city median would spend about 15.4% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 1.9× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 13.1% of residents and 82.3% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Atlanta city, IL in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Atlanta city is a small town in Illinois, with 1,738 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #538 of 1,462 ranked by population — larger than 63% of them. The median age here is 37.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Atlanta city earn a median of $64,091 a year, 18.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 14% below the $74,244 median for the 698 Illinois cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 13.1% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Atlanta city is valued at $123,400, 59.3% below the national figure and 31% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $823 a month, 41.5% below the national figure, or roughly $9,876 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 15.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 1.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 82.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Atlanta city?: Atlanta city has 1,738 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #538 of 1,462 in Illinois.
What is the median household income in Atlanta city?: Median household income in Atlanta city is $64,091 a year, 18.4% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Atlanta city?: Median gross rent is $823 a month and the median home value is $123,400, so rent absorbs about 15.4% of median household income.
Is Atlanta city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 1.9× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Atlanta city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 15.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Atlanta city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.