Downs, IL

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Downs, IL: 1 USPS ZIP, population 1,808. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.

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ACS city ledger plate

Sheet DOWNS-IL · Downs, IL 1 ZIPs · 1,808 pop · #3025/25278 · McLean County

INC-TOP · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-ONE · OWN-HIGH · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-MID

  • INC-TOP $110,444
  • RANK-TOP #3025/25278
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Danvers
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-HIGH 90% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 1,808
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-MID $276,000

Nearest income peer: Danvers, IL ( $2,503 income $)

Instrument codes from this city’s ACS household income, national rank, county-peer gap, ZIP book, owner tenure, population scale, intra-city income spread, and home-value band, not a moving recommendation.

Income neighbourhood around Downs

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Downs on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.

median HH income

What this shows County-sharing peers only, not the full US city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the mosaic is wide.

Source U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 5-Year Estimates As of 2026-08-06

National city placement

According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Downs, IL sits among US cities with an upper-quartile household income, on a village-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.

Top 12%
household income vs 25,278 US cities
1,808
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$110,444
avg ZIP median income

Income percentile ranks this city's average ZIP median household income against 25,278 US cities with ACS income on at least one ZIP. Scale and ZIP-spread words come from Census population and USPS ZIP coverage.

High-income footprint on only 1 ZIP: the city page and the ZIP page nearly coincide. Headline income $110,444 and home value $276,000 should be read as near-neighborhood numbers ; bachelor's attainment averages 56.8%.

Owner-occupancy here runs high (89.7%) - tenure is stable enough that the ZIP detail's owner share is the right next click, not a renter-heavy compare.

Within Illinois, Brookfield is the closest lower-income city and Sutter the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Downs.

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ZIP Codes in Downs, IL

These ZIP codes sit in McLean County, which covers 23 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Downs. See the McLean County roll-up →

Downs sits in the upper half of McLean County on income: Bloomington, Normal and Le Roy report less, while Hudson, Carlock and Towanda report more. Normal marks the far end of that range at $65,275, 41% below Downs.

ZIP Code Population Density Timezone
61736 1,808 19 America/Chicago

On a short ZIP footprint the city roll-up and the primary ZIP nearly coincide. Start at the Census ACS tables for Downs, then BLS wages if you need the labor-market side of the same small geography.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates (2023). Verify with Census Bureau →

Source: HUD USPS Crosswalk (ZIP-to-county mapping) and Source: simplemaps.com (ZIP coordinates & timezones). Verify with HUD →

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