East Hazel Crest, IL population, income and ZIP codes

East Hazel Crest village is a small town in Illinois, with 1,122 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #666 of 1,462 ranked by population — larger than 54% of them. The median age here is 43.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 East Hazel Crest village earn a median of $57,000 a year, 27.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 23% 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 20.1% 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 East Hazel Crest village is valued at $168,800, 44.4% below the national figure and 6% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,453 a month, 3.3% above the national figure, or roughly $17,436 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 30.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 59.4% 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.

East Hazel Crest village is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 30.6% of median income while homes cost only 3× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price.

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.