What is the population of Steger village?

Steger village has 9,449 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #235 of 1,462 in Illinois.

What is the median household income in Steger village?

Median household income in Steger village is $59,691 a year, 24% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $1,035 a month and the median home value is $134,100, so rent absorbs about 20.8% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 2.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Steger village is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 20.8% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Steger, IL population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Steger, Illinois (Steger, IL — Census place “Steger village”) is 9,449 residents, ranking #235 of 1462 places in Illinois. Median household income is $59,691, the median home is worth $134,100 and median gross rent runs $1,035 a month. Looking for the Steger Illinois ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Steger, IL: 60475.

Population: 9,449Steger village residents
Median household income: $59,691Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $134,100Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,035Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 39.4 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 60.3%Owner-occupied households

Steger ZIP codes (Illinois)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Steger.

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

60475

What the numbers mean in Steger village

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Steger village median would spend about 20.8% 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 2.2× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 15% of residents and 60.3% of households own their home.

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

Steger village, IL in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Steger village is a mid-size town in Illinois, with 9,449 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #235 of 1,462 ranked by population — larger than 83% of them. The median age here is 39.4 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 Steger village earn a median of $59,691 a year, 24% below the national figure of $78,538 and 20% 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 15% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Steger village is valued at $134,100, 55.8% below the national figure and 25% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,035 a month, 26.4% below the national figure, or roughly $12,420 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 20.8% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.2×, 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. 60.3% 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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What is the population of Steger village?: Steger village has 9,449 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #235 of 1,462 in Illinois.
What is the median household income in Steger village?: Median household income in Steger village is $59,691 a year, 24% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Steger village?: Median gross rent is $1,035 a month and the median home value is $134,100, so rent absorbs about 20.8% of median household income.
Is Steger village affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Steger village is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 20.8% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Steger 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.