
Illinois · FIPS 17183
Vermilion ZIP codes — Vermilion County, Illinois
Quick answer
Vermilion County is home to 73,179 residents with a median household income of $54,537 and a median home value of $92,900. 69.2% of households own their home and 17.2% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Vermilion ZIP code? 24 ZIP code areas fall inside Vermilion County, Illinois, listed in full below.
- Population
- 73,179Vermilion County residents
- Median household income
- $54,537Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $92,900Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $802Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 41.2 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 69.2%Owner-occupied households
Vermilion County, IL in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Vermilion County is a small city in Illinois, with 73,179 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 41.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.
Households in Vermilion County earn a median of $54,537 a year, 30.6% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 17.2% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in Vermilion County is valued at $92,900, 69.4% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $802 a month, 43% below the national figure, or roughly $9,624 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.6% 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 1.7×, 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. 69.2% 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.
ZIP codes in Vermilion County
ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Vermilion County.
How to read this page
What these estimates cover.
Figures are five-year rolling averages from the American Community Survey, not single-year counts, so they describe conditions across 2019-2023 ACS 5-year rather than a single date. Median home value covers owner-occupied units as valued by their owners, and median gross rent includes utilities the renter pays. Small counties carry wide margins of error; treat single-dollar differences between neighbouring counties as noise.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Cities and towns in Illinois
Largest Census places in Illinois by population.
- Chicago city 2,707,648
- Aurora city 179,867
- Joliet city 149,785
- Naperville city 149,424
- Rockford city 147,649
- Elgin city 114,106
- Springfield city 113,714
- Peoria city 112,126
- Waukegan city 88,919
- Champaign city 88,822
- Cicero town 83,223
- Bloomington city 78,703
Nearby counties
Other counties in Illinois.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Vermilion County?
- Vermilion County has 73,179 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
- What is the median household income in Vermilion County?
- Median household income in Vermilion County is $54,537 a year, 30.6% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Vermilion County?
- Median gross rent is $802 a month and the median home value is $92,900, so rent absorbs about 17.6% of median household income.
- Is Vermilion County affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 1.7× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Vermilion County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 17.6% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Vermilion County data?
- All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.