Sunnyland, IL population, income and ZIP codes

Sunnyland CDP is a very small community in Illinois, with 829 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #756 of 1,462 ranked by population — larger than 48% of them. The median age here is 37.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Sunnyland CDP earn a median of $65,833 a year, 16.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 11% below the $74,244 median for the 698 Illinois cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 17.7% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Sunnyland CDP is valued at $140,700, 53.6% below the national figure and 21% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,935 a month, 37.6% above the national figure, or roughly $23,220 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 35.3% 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 2.1×, 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. 81.6% 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. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Sunnyland CDP is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 35.3% of median income while homes cost only 2.1× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. With 829 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Sunnyland CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

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.