Sauk Village, IL population, income and ZIP codes

Sauk Village village is a mid-size town in Illinois, with 9,724 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #230 of 1,462 ranked by population — larger than 84% of them. The median age here is 34.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Sauk Village village earn a median of $56,946 a year, 27.5% 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 20.6% 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 Sauk Village village is valued at $101,900, 66.4% below the national figure and 43% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,504 a month, 7% above the national figure, or roughly $18,048 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 31.7% 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 1.8×, 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. 58.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Sauk Village village is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 31.7% of median income while homes cost only 1.8× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price.

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.