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Golden Gate, IL

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Golden Gate, IL: 1 USPS ZIP, population 100. 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 GOLDEN-GATE-IL · Golden Gate, IL 1 ZIPs · 100 pop · #25240/25278 · Wayne County

INC-LOW · RANK-BOTTOM · BELOW-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-LOW · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-UNK

  • INC-LOW $16,020
  • RANK-BOTTOM #25240/25278
  • BELOW-PEER under Barnhill
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-LOW 43% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 100
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-UNK Homes pending

Nearest income peer: Barnhill, IL (+ $27,880 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 Golden Gate

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Golden Gate 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 2026-08-25

National city placement

According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Golden Gate, IL sits among US cities with one of the lowest household incomes among US cities, on a village-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.

0th pct
household income vs 25,278 US cities
100
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$16,020
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.

Lower-income footing on only 1 ZIP ($16,020 average) · poverty 27.6%. The primary code (62843) carries the ACS household fields that matter.

Owner-occupancy is comparatively low (43.3%) for this income tier, rent - may matter more than the home-value average.

Within Illinois, Hines is the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Its 1 ZIP footprint is the immediate statewide comparison for Golden Gate.

Population concentration

One ZIP, 62843, is all of Golden Gate

There is no split to weigh here: 62843 holds every one of Golden Gate's 100 ACS residents. City-level and ZIP-level numbers on this site are the same number twice, check the ZIP page for the income/tenure/commute breakdown.

Census ZBP business roll-up

No ZBP establishments filed for Golden Gate's ZIPs

Census County Business Patterns has no establishment rows joined to the ACS ZIPs mapped to Golden Gate. Read demography on this page; business counts are absent for this footprint.

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ZIP Codes in Golden Gate, IL

These ZIP codes sit in Wayne County, which covers 12 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Golden Gate. See the Wayne County roll-up →

Every one of the 11 cities sharing Wayne County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Golden Gate, Fairfield, Wayne City and Cisne among them. That gap is the county's income spread, not a measure of the housing or commute picture below. Keenes marks the far end of that range at $96,728, 504% above Golden Gate.

ZIP Code Population Median income Establishments Density
62843 100 $16,020 n/a 6
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