Bloomington, IL population, income and ZIP codes

Bloomington city is a small city in Illinois, with 78,703 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #12 of 1,462 ranked by population — larger than 99% of them. The median age here is 36 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.

Households in Bloomington city earn a median of $75,449 a year, 3.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and within a couple of points of the $74,244 median for the 698 Illinois cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 11.2% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Bloomington city is valued at $198,800, 34.5% below the national figure and 11% above the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,004 a month, 28.6% below the national figure, or roughly $12,048 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16% 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 2.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 61.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.