Merritt, IL population, income and ZIP codes

Merritt CDP is a very small community in Illinois, with 75 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1374 of 1,462 ranked by population — larger than 6% of them. The median age here is 16 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Merritt CDP earn a median of not published a year. 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 0% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Merritt CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 54.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

A median age of 16 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address. With 75 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Merritt CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, home value, gross rent for Merritt CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.