State or territory · Census 2020–2024

Median rent and rent burden in Illinois

Median monthly gross rent: $1,274
Rent burden · 30% or more: 47.9%
Severe burden · 50% or more: 24.7%

Burden figures cover an estimated 1,538,603 renter households with a computed rent-to-income ratio.

How much income would keep this rent at 30%?

The area’s median gross rent would equal 30% of an annual household income of $50,960. The calculation multiplies monthly rent by 12 and divides by 0.30.

Compare with broader areas

Same-period Census estimates
Area	Median gross rent ± margin	Rent burden	Severe burden
Illinois	$1,274 ± $5	47.9%	24.7%
United States	$1,413 ± $2	51.1%	25.9%

Browse counties in Illinois

Adams County$828 median gross rent · 40.7% rent burden
Alexander County$656 median gross rent · 20.4% rent burden
Bond County$785 median gross rent · 33.3% rent burden
Boone County$1,041 median gross rent · 45.5% rent burden
Brown County$698 median gross rent · 39.5% rent burden
Bureau County$832 median gross rent · 33.6% rent burden
Calhoun County$583 median gross rent · 28% rent burden
Carroll County$818 median gross rent · 37.2% rent burden
Cass County$723 median gross rent · 28.6% rent burden
Champaign County$1,051 median gross rent · 54.2% rent burden
Christian County$785 median gross rent · 35.9% rent burden
Clark County$861 median gross rent · 47.1% rent burden
Clay County$735 median gross rent · 23.2% rent burden
Clinton County$912 median gross rent · 36.6% rent burden
Coles County$780 median gross rent · 43.2% rent burden
Cook County$1,435 median gross rent · 48.9% rent burden
Crawford County$811 median gross rent · 36.1% rent burden
Cumberland County$772 median gross rent · 36% rent burden
De Witt County$903 median gross rent · 34.5% rent burden
DeKalb County$1,049 median gross rent · 57.2% rent burden
Douglas County$848 median gross rent · 32.5% rent burden
DuPage County$1,688 median gross rent · 45.1% rent burden
Edgar County$775 median gross rent · 33.7% rent burden
Edwards County$811 median gross rent · 45.1% rent burden
Effingham County$733 median gross rent · 33.5% rent burden
Fayette County$798 median gross rent · 51.9% rent burden
Ford County$923 median gross rent · 44% rent burden
Franklin County$803 median gross rent · 52.2% rent burden
Fulton County$785 median gross rent · 45.9% rent burden
Gallatin County$541 median gross rent · 35% rent burden
Greene County$754 median gross rent · 37.9% rent burden
Grundy County$1,177 median gross rent · 40.2% rent burden
Hamilton County$568 median gross rent · 21% rent burden
Hancock County$782 median gross rent · 40.2% rent burden
Hardin County$379 median gross rent · 8% rent burden
Henderson County$764 median gross rent · 32.3% rent burden
Henry County$842 median gross rent · 40.1% rent burden
Iroquois County$799 median gross rent · 42.7% rent burden
Jackson County$782 median gross rent · 50.2% rent burden
Jasper County$793 median gross rent · 28.2% rent burden
Jefferson County$885 median gross rent · 43.3% rent burden
Jersey County$846 median gross rent · 40% rent burden
Jo Daviess County$825 median gross rent · 41.2% rent burden
Johnson County$781 median gross rent · 43.2% rent burden
Kane County$1,453 median gross rent · 49.7% rent burden
Kankakee County$1,097 median gross rent · 47.1% rent burden
Kendall County$1,781 median gross rent · 52.4% rent burden
Knox County$788 median gross rent · 52.1% rent burden
Lake County$1,477 median gross rent · 49.3% rent burden
LaSalle County$928 median gross rent · 43.2% rent burden
Lawrence County$836 median gross rent · 34.5% rent burden
Lee County$894 median gross rent · 42.3% rent burden
Livingston County$880 median gross rent · 35.4% rent burden
Logan County$829 median gross rent · 47.3% rent burden
Macon County$847 median gross rent · 40.3% rent burden
Macoupin County$801 median gross rent · 38.3% rent burden
Madison County$1,024 median gross rent · 46.6% rent burden
Marion County$794 median gross rent · 42.6% rent burden
Marshall County$782 median gross rent · 40.9% rent burden
Mason County$802 median gross rent · 56.6% rent burden
Massac County$756 median gross rent · 50.7% rent burden
McDonough County$761 median gross rent · 48.2% rent burden
McHenry County$1,401 median gross rent · 50.6% rent burden
McLean County$1,009 median gross rent · 45% rent burden
Menard County$885 median gross rent · 54.9% rent burden
Mercer County$786 median gross rent · 37.7% rent burden
Monroe County$1,042 median gross rent · 46.9% rent burden
Montgomery County$723 median gross rent · 45.6% rent burden
Morgan County$722 median gross rent · 33.2% rent burden
Moultrie County$804 median gross rent · 33.8% rent burden
Ogle County$936 median gross rent · 38% rent burden
Peoria County$993 median gross rent · 47.2% rent burden
Perry County$728 median gross rent · 49.3% rent burden
Piatt County$1,046 median gross rent · 31.3% rent burden
Pike County$676 median gross rent · 40.8% rent burden
Pope County$449 median gross rent · 33.6% rent burden
Pulaski County$634 median gross rent · 29.9% rent burden
Putnam County$851 median gross rent · 28.8% rent burden
Randolph County$780 median gross rent · 44.2% rent burden
Richland County$805 median gross rent · 46.2% rent burden
Rock Island County$889 median gross rent · 47.7% rent burden
Saline County$726 median gross rent · 50.5% rent burden
Sangamon County$983 median gross rent · 45.8% rent burden
Schuyler County$853 median gross rent · 34% rent burden
Scott County$689 median gross rent · 23.8% rent burden
Shelby County$814 median gross rent · 32% rent burden
St. Clair County$1,090 median gross rent · 47.7% rent burden
Stark County$735 median gross rent · 42.9% rent burden
Stephenson County$798 median gross rent · 43.3% rent burden
Tazewell County$909 median gross rent · 42.7% rent burden
Union County$648 median gross rent · 48.1% rent burden
Vermilion County$838 median gross rent · 46.3% rent burden
Wabash County$794 median gross rent · 39.9% rent burden
Warren County$788 median gross rent · 35.1% rent burden
Washington County$818 median gross rent · 28.7% rent burden
Wayne County$657 median gross rent · 41.2% rent burden
White County$719 median gross rent · 40.7% rent burden
Whiteside County$856 median gross rent · 45.5% rent burden
Will County$1,462 median gross rent · 51.5% rent burden
Williamson County$930 median gross rent · 46.4% rent burden
Winnebago County$1,021 median gross rent · 49.8% rent burden
Woodford County$912 median gross rent · 44.2% rent burden

Data and definitions

How to read the estimates

The Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 American Community Survey five-year release provides these survey estimates. America.co matched Census rent tables by geography ID and used the Gazetteer’s representative points to calculate straight-line distance.

Gross rent includes contract rent and utilities or fuels paid separately. The median describes cash-rent homes surveyed during this period.
Rent burden means gross rent was at least 30% of household income. Severe rent burden means at least 50%. Both shares use only cash-rent households for which Census could compute the ratio.
Margins use the Census 90% confidence level. The rent margin is published by Census. The burden margins are approximate and combine the published category margins using the Census sum and proportion formulas. County and ZIP-area pages require at least 100 estimated households with a computed ratio, a rent margin at most 35% of the estimate, and a rent-burden margin of 20 percentage points or less.
ZIP areas are Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas. A mailing ZIP can differ or have no corresponding Census area. Distances are straight-line distances between representative points.

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