West Union, IL population, income and ZIP codes

West Union CDP is a very small community in Illinois, with 164 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1257 of 1,462 ranked by population — larger than 14% of them. The median age here is 61.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 West Union CDP earn a median of $72,969 a year, 7.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and within a couple of points of 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 15.2% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in West Union CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 76.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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 61.2 puts West Union CDP well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 164 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare West Union CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value, gross rent for West Union CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.