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Atlanta, Illinois

Atlanta is a city in Logan County, Illinois, part of the Lincoln, IL metro area. It has 1,580 residents. Atlanta, Illinois has a quality-of-life score of 46 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #8,519 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Illinois it ranks #386 of 697 cities and towns. It ranks best on income inequality (Gini index) (low), distance to an Amtrak station (low) and home price to income ratio (low). It ranks worst on new business applications (low), voter turnout (low) and job growth (low).

46Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #8,519 of 15,651 cities and towns
Illinois: #386 of 697 in IL
Population: 1,580 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,264.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 1702752

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety68#5,062/15,637
Economy51#7,664/15,631
Housing74#3,949/14,977
Health54#7,192/15,609
Healthcare50#7,833/15,650
Environment9#14,065/15,453
Education49#7,983/15,649
Infrastructure44#8,796/15,650
Community41#9,312/15,651
Leisure & amenities35#10,117/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Atlanta, Illinois ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Logan County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.309
99/100Illinois 0.481United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Distance to an Amtrak station · low4 mi
98/100Illinois 13 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauLogan County value
Home price to income ratio · low1.7×
97/100Illinois 3.2×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Illinois 6.2 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataLogan County value
Public libraries · high1.8 /10k
90/100Illinois 0.6 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesLogan County value
Mammography screening · high54.0%
88/100Illinois 47.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLogan County value

Weaknesses

New business applications · low7.0 /1k
2/100Illinois 14.9 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauLogan County value
Voter turnout · low48.3%
3/100Illinois 62.9%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionLogan County value
Job growth · low-3.6%
5/100Illinois 0.0%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataLogan County value
Distance to an airport · high110 mi
7/100Illinois 35 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauLogan County value
Primary care physicians · low29 /100k
11/100Illinois 82 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLogan County value
Mental health care shortage · high18.0
11/100Illinois 12.2United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationLogan County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationFalling
2,063 (2015-2019) → 1,580 (2020-2024)
−23%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
79.6% (2015-2019) → 92.1% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Median household incomeImproving
$50,859 (2015-2019) → $80,972 (2020-2024)
+59%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
30.3% (2015-2019) → 24.1% (2020-2024)
−6.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Poverty rateImproving
13.2% (2015-2019) → 8.1% (2020-2024)
−5.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
High school diploma or higherImproving
91.7% (2015-2019) → 96.1% (2020-2024)
+4.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Atlanta, Illinois improved on 3 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 9 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved3

Household income+59%$50,859 → $80,972
Inequality−0.0810.390 → 0.309
Broadband+12 points79.6% → 92.1%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Atlanta, Illinois between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	27.4 min2015-2019	25.0 min2020-2024	−2.4 min	Within the margin of error	75%
Bachelor's degree or higher	14.8%2015-2019	16.5%2020-2024	+1.7 points	Within the margin of error	40%
Broadband subscriptions	79.6%2015-2019	92.1%2020-2024	+12 points	Improved	71%
Effective property tax rate	1.65%2015-2019	1.62%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	21%
High school diploma or higher	91.7%2015-2019	96.1%2020-2024	+4.4 points	Within the margin of error	79%
Home price to income ratio	1.9×2015-2019	1.7×2020-2024	−0.2×	Within the margin of error	87%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3902015-2019	0.3092020-2024	−0.081	Improved	93%
Median household income	$50,8592015-2019	$80,9722020-2024	+59%	Improved	90%
Poverty rate	13.2%2015-2019	8.1%2020-2024	−5.1 points	Within the margin of error	81%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	24.4%2015-2019	24.4%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	55%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	2.8%2015-2019	3.1%2020-2024	+0.3 points	Within the margin of error	43%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Atlanta, Illinois five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Atlanta, Illinois in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Atlanta, Illinois itself moved +10.2 points in standing on average over the same 9 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,580 residents (±341)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

733 households (±135)

Atlanta, Illinois
Illinois share

Under $25k7.1%†52
$25k–50k26%†187
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

733 households (±135)

Atlanta, Illinois
Illinois share

Own84%618
Rent16%†115

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

698 workers (±161)

Atlanta, Illinois
Illinois share

Drive alone75%524
Carpool4.6%†32
Public transit0.0%0

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Lincoln, IL

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Logan County, the county holding most of Atlanta's residents.

Logan County has 536 employer establishments, 198 for every 10,000 residents (0.80× the US rate of 248; 0.78× Illinois's), with 6,766 paid employees at an average annual pay of $42,761. The Census Bureau also counts 1,344 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 536; 1,344 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 198; US 248 · Illinois 255
Paid employees: 6,766
Average annual pay: $42,761; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Logan County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Restaurants and other eating places	46	17	0.93×About typical	673	$18,991	9
Religious organizations	34	12.6	2.27×More than typical	174	$22,218	—
Specialty trade contractors	30	11.1	0.72×Fewer than typical	147	$46,619	100
Truck transportation	25	9.2	1.83×More than typical	261	$63,088	36
Ambulatory health care services	22	8.1	0.39×Fewer than typical	193	$61,161	30
Full-service restaurants	21	7.8	1.01×About typical	256	$19,348	—
Banks and credit unions	18	6.7	2.06×More than typical	155	$47,316	—
Lessors of real estate	18	6.7	0.54×Fewer than typical	37	$38,162	101
Limited-service restaurants	16	5.9	0.74×Fewer than typical	331	$19,015	7
Insurance agencies and brokerages	15	5.5	1.26×More than typical	43	$60,837	24
Automotive repair and maintenance	13	4.8	0.95×About typical	64	$49,719	20
Construction of buildings	13	4.8	0.64×Fewer than typical	68	$53,985	40

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County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 27,037 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Atlanta, Illinois: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

9.7FY2019

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Atlanta, Illinois, so they do not add up across cities.

Atlanta, Illinois's figures are part of those of Logan County, IL ($56.7K in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Atlanta is mostly in Logan County.

See federal money in Logan County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Atlanta, Illinois is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Mary E. MillerR-IL-15 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 3.9%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Logan County58100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Lincoln, IL51

Other cities and towns in Logan County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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