ZIP code 61315

ZIP 61315 is a very small community in Bureau County, Illinois, with 279 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1234 of 1,396 ranked by population — larger than 11% of them. The median age here is 36.5 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 ZIP 61315 earn a median of $54,063 a year, 31.2% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 25.4% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 61315 is valued at $53,700, 82.3% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,821 a month, 29.5% above the national figure, or roughly $21,852 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 40.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is severely stretched — a median-income renter clears the cost-burden line by a wide margin before utilities beyond the gross-rent definition. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 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. 59.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

ZIP 61315 is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 40.4% of median income while homes cost only 1× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. With 279 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 61315 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.

ZIP 61315 is tabulated inside Bureau County, Illinois, one of 24 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 1,396 across Illinois. This is one of the smallest tabulated ZIP areas in the state, the kind of rural route where a single subdivision or farm cluster accounts for most addresses. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 61315 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 61315 reports a median household income of $54,063, 17% below the $64,789 county median, and 26% below the $72,734 typical IL ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $53,700, 49% below the county figure and 63% below the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,821 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Illinois charges 6.25% statewide, and local governments overlapping 61315 may add county, city or special-district levies on top. We publish the state floor for this ZIP rather than guessing a combined figure, because ZIP boundaries and taxing-district boundaries were drawn for different purposes and do not line up.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 61315 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.