Thebes, IL population, income and ZIP codes

Thebes village is a very small community in Illinois, with 363 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1030 of 1,462 ranked by population — larger than 29% of them. The median age here is 29.3 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 Thebes village earn a median of $41,250 a year, 47.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 44% below the $74,244 median for the 698 Illinois cities we cover. 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 14.3% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Thebes village is valued at $45,000, 85.2% below the national figure and 75% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $475 a month, 66.2% below the national figure, or roughly $5,700 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 13.8% 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 1.1×, 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. 80.4% 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. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 29.3 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 363 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Thebes village 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.