What is the population of Rockton village?

Rockton village has 8,238 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #260 of 1,462 in Illinois.

What is the median household income in Rockton village?

Median household income in Rockton village is $109,333 a year, 39.2% above the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Rockton village?

Median gross rent is $864 a month and the median home value is $222,100, so rent absorbs about 9.5% of median household income.

Is Rockton village affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Rockton village is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 9.5% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Rockton, IL population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Rockton, Illinois (Rockton, IL — Census place “Rockton village”) is 8,238 residents, ranking #260 of 1462 places in Illinois. Median household income is $109,333, the median home is worth $222,100 and median gross rent runs $864 a month. Looking for the Rockton Illinois ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Rockton, IL: 61072.

Population: 8,238Rockton village residents
Median household income: $109,333Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $222,100Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $864Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 40.1 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 80.7%Owner-occupied households

Rockton ZIP codes (Illinois)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Rockton.

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

61072

What the numbers mean in Rockton village

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Rockton village median would spend about 9.5% 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 2.0× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 6.3% of residents and 80.7% of households own their home.

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

Rockton village, IL in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Rockton village is a mid-size town in Illinois, with 8,238 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #260 of 1,462 ranked by population — larger than 82% of them. The median age here is 40.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Rockton village earn a median of $109,333 a year, 39.2% above the national figure of $78,538 and 47% above 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 6.3% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Rockton village is valued at $222,100, 26.8% below the national figure and 24% above the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $864 a month, 38.5% below the national figure, or roughly $10,368 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 9.5% 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 2×, 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. 80.7% 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.

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.

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What is the population of Rockton village?: Rockton village has 8,238 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #260 of 1,462 in Illinois.
What is the median household income in Rockton village?: Median household income in Rockton village is $109,333 a year, 39.2% above the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Rockton village?: Median gross rent is $864 a month and the median home value is $222,100, so rent absorbs about 9.5% of median household income.
Is Rockton village affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Rockton village is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 9.5% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Rockton village data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.