What is the population of Sparta city?

Sparta city has 4,070 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #377 of 1,462 in Illinois.

What is the median household income in Sparta city?

Median household income in Sparta city is $63,401 a year, 19.3% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $722 a month and the median home value is $120,500, so rent absorbs about 13.7% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 1.9× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Sparta city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 13.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Sparta, IL population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Sparta, Illinois (Sparta, IL — Census place “Sparta city”) is 4,070 residents, ranking #377 of 1462 places in Illinois. Median household income is $63,401, the median home is worth $120,500 and median gross rent runs $722 a month. Looking for the Sparta Illinois ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Sparta, IL: 62286.

Population: 4,070Sparta city residents
Median household income: $63,401Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $120,500Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $722Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 40.1 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 59.5%Owner-occupied households

Sparta ZIP codes (Illinois)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Sparta.

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

62286

What the numbers mean in Sparta city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Sparta city median would spend about 13.7% 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 1.9× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 19% of residents and 59.5% of households own their home.

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

Sparta city, IL in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Sparta city is a small town in Illinois, with 4,070 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #377 of 1,462 ranked by population — larger than 74% of them. The median age here is 40.1 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 Sparta city earn a median of $63,401 a year, 19.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and 15% 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 19% 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 Sparta city is valued at $120,500, 60.3% below the national figure and 33% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $722 a month, 48.6% below the national figure, or roughly $8,664 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 13.7% 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 1.9×, 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. 59.5% 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.

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

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Sparta city?: Sparta city has 4,070 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #377 of 1,462 in Illinois.
What is the median household income in Sparta city?: Median household income in Sparta city is $63,401 a year, 19.3% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Sparta city?: Median gross rent is $722 a month and the median home value is $120,500, so rent absorbs about 13.7% of median household income.
Is Sparta city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 1.9× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Sparta city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 13.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Sparta 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.