ZIP code 62850

ZIP 62850 is a very small community in Wayne County, Illinois, with 631 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1045 of 1,396 ranked by population — larger than 25% of them. The median age here is 14.9 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 ZIP 62850 earn a median of $101,063 a year, 28.7% above the national figure of $78,538. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 2.5% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 62850 is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 85.7% 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. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

A median age of 14.9 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 631 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 62850 against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value, gross rent for ZIP 62850 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.

ZIP 62850 is tabulated inside Wayne County, Illinois, one of 12 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 1,396 across Illinois. Fewer than 2,500 people are counted here, so the ZIP behaves like a village delivery route rather than a neighbourhood. 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 62850 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 62850 reports a median household income of $101,063, 86% above the $54,304 county median, and 39% above the $72,734 typical IL ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of not published. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at not published 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 62850 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 62850 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.