West Chicago, IL population, income and ZIP codes

West Chicago city is a small city in Illinois, with 25,434 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #86 of 1,462 ranked by population — larger than 94% of them. The median age here is 35.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 West Chicago city earn a median of $100,568 a year, 28.1% above the national figure of $78,538 and 35% above the $74,244 median for the 698 Illinois cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 12.1% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in West Chicago city is valued at $306,500, 1% above the national figure and 71% above the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,376 a month, 2.1% below the national figure, or roughly $16,512 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.4% 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 3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 73.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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.