Bureau Junction, IL population, income and ZIP codes

Bureau Junction village is a very small community in Illinois, with 279 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1113 of 1,462 ranked by population — larger than 23% of them. The median age here is 36.5 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 Bureau Junction village earn a median of $54,063 a year, 31.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 27% below the $74,244 median for the 698 Illinois cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 25.4% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Bureau Junction village is valued at $53,700, 82.3% below the national figure and 70% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,821 a month, 29.5% above the national figure, or roughly $21,852 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 40.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is severely stretched — a median-income renter clears the cost-burden line by a wide margin before utilities beyond the gross-rent definition. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 1×, 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. 59.1% 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.

Bureau Junction village is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 40.4% of median income while homes cost only 1× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. With 279 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Bureau Junction 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.