What is the population of Gilman city?

Gilman city has 1,576 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #568 of 1,462 in Illinois.

What is the median household income in Gilman city?

Median household income in Gilman city is $65,729 a year, 16.3% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $702 a month and the median home value is $108,900, so rent absorbs about 12.8% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 1.7× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Gilman city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 12.8% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Gilman, IL population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Gilman, Illinois (Gilman, IL — Census place “Gilman city”) is 1,576 residents, ranking #568 of 1462 places in Illinois. Median household income is $65,729, the median home is worth $108,900 and median gross rent runs $702 a month. Looking for the Gilman Illinois ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Gilman, IL: 60938.

Population: 1,576Gilman city residents
Median household income: $65,729Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $108,900Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $702Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 43.8 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 78.4%Owner-occupied households

Gilman ZIP codes (Illinois)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Gilman.

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

60938

What the numbers mean in Gilman city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Gilman city median would spend about 12.8% 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 1.7× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 7% of residents and 78.4% of households own their home.

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

Gilman city, IL in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Gilman city is a small town in Illinois, with 1,576 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #568 of 1,462 ranked by population — larger than 61% of them. The median age here is 43.8 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 Gilman city earn a median of $65,729 a year, 16.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and 11% below 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 7% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Gilman city is valued at $108,900, 64.1% below the national figure and 39% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $702 a month, 50.1% below the national figure, or roughly $8,424 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 12.8% 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 1.7×, 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. 78.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

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

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What is the population of Gilman city?: Gilman city has 1,576 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #568 of 1,462 in Illinois.
What is the median household income in Gilman city?: Median household income in Gilman city is $65,729 a year, 16.3% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Gilman city?: Median gross rent is $702 a month and the median home value is $108,900, so rent absorbs about 12.8% of median household income.
Is Gilman city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 1.7× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Gilman city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 12.8% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Gilman 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.