Serena, IL population, income and ZIP codes

Serena CDP is a very small community in Illinois, with 195 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1213 of 1,462 ranked by population — larger than 17% of them. The median age here is 15.4 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 Serena CDP earn a median of not published a year. 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 35.4% 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 Serena CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 50% 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.

A median age of 15.4 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 195 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Serena CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, home value, gross rent for Serena 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.