Buda, IL population, income and ZIP codes

Buda village is a very small community in Illinois, with 511 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #937 of 1,462 ranked by population — larger than 35% of them. The median age here is 35 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 Buda village earn a median of $49,922 a year, 36.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 33% 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 14% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Buda village is valued at $69,800, 77% below the national figure and 61% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $894 a month, 36.4% below the national figure, or roughly $10,728 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 21.5% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 1.4×, 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. 86.9% 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. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

With 511 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Buda village against its county rather than against national figures.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.