City · Pike County, Illinois

Barry, Illinois

Barry is a city in Pike County, Illinois. It has 1,512 residents. Barry, Illinois has a quality-of-life score of 25 out of 100 (low), ranking #11,816 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Illinois it ranks #613 of 697 cities and towns. It ranks best on home price to income ratio (low), income inequality (Gini index) (low) and grocery stores (high). It ranks worst on flu vaccinations (low), pharmacies (low) and math scores (low).

25Low

Quality-of-life score: #11,816 of 15,651 cities and towns
Illinois: #613 of 697 in IL
Population: 1,512 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,055.7 /mi²
FIPS code: 1703948

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.

Safety51#7,691/15,637
Economy29#11,094/15,631
Housing82#2,750/14,977
Health22#12,105/15,609
Healthcare13#13,560/15,650
Environment33#10,371/15,453
Education11#13,901/15,649
Infrastructure3#15,106/15,650
Community34#10,349/15,651
Leisure & amenities86#2,118/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Barry, Illinois ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Pike 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

Home price to income ratio · low1.2×
100/100Illinois 3.2×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.336
94/100Illinois 0.481United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Grocery stores · high2.8 /10k
93/100Illinois 1.9 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPike County value
Public libraries · high2.1 /10k
92/100Illinois 0.6 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesPike County value
Time spent in the emergency room · low117 min
89/100Illinois 170 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesPike County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · high7.0 /10k
88/100Illinois 4.8 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPike County value

Weaknesses

Flu vaccinations · low17.0%
0/100Illinois 48.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePike County value
Pharmacies · low0.0 /10k
1/100Illinois 2.0 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPike County value
Math scores · low2.53
5/100Illinois 2.90United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePike County value
Average weekly wage · low$915
7/100Illinois $1,539United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPike County value
Access to exercise opportunities · low43.9%
7/100Illinois 90.6%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePike County value
Reading scores · low2.67
8/100Illinois 2.97United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePike County value

Trends

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

Median household incomeImproving
$40,375 (2015-2019) → $76,042 (2020-2024)
+88%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Child poverty rateImproving
33.0% (2015-2019) → 19.7% (2020-2024)
−13 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
New homes permittedWorsening
1.3 /1k (2021) → 0.7 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−49%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
39.4% (2015-2019) → 30.5% (2020-2024)
−8.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
7.0% (2015-2019) → 13.0% (2020-2024)
+6 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Home price to income ratioImproving
1.7× (2015-2019) → 1.2× (2020-2024)
−28%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×

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, Barry, Illinois improved on 3 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 11 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+88%$40,375 → $76,042
Inequality−0.0890.425 → 0.336
Price / income−0.5×1.7× → 1.2×

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Barry, Illinois between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	29.7 min2015-2019	24.3 min2020-2024	−5.5 min	Within the margin of error	91%
Bachelor's degree or higher	14.2%2015-2019	17.0%2020-2024	+2.8 points	Within the margin of error	50%
Broadband subscriptions	75.2%2015-2019	79.0%2020-2024	+3.8 points	Within the margin of error	25%
Effective property tax rate	1.99%2015-2019	1.53%2020-2024	−0.5 points	Within the margin of error	89%
High school diploma or higher	92.9%2015-2019	88.4%2020-2024	−4.5 points	Within the margin of error	7%
Home price to income ratio	1.7×2015-2019	1.2×2020-2024	−0.5×	Improved	93%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4252015-2019	0.3362020-2024	−0.089	Improved	94%
Median household income	$40,3752015-2019	$76,0422020-2024	+88%	Improved	97%
Poverty rate	18.6%2015-2019	15.3%2020-2024	−3.3 points	Within the margin of error	72%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	25.4%2015-2019	21.3%2020-2024	−4.1 points	Within the margin of error	79%
Rent-burdened households	39.4%2015-2019	30.5%2020-2024	−8.9 points	Within the margin of error	80%
Unemployment rate	7.6%2015-2019	5.8%2020-2024	−1.8 points	Within the margin of error	80%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	7.0%2015-2019	13.0%2020-2024	+6 points	Within the margin of error	8%

“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 Barry, Illinois five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Barry, 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, Barry, Illinois itself moved +10.1 points in standing on average over the same 10 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

1,512 residents (±258)

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

543 households (±85)

Barry, Illinois
Illinois share

Under $25k15%†80
$25k–50k17%†92
$50k–75k18%†

Homes

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

Owners and renters

543 households (±85)

Barry, Illinois
Illinois share

Own74%404
Rent26%139

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

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

652 workers (±155)

Barry, Illinois
Illinois share

Drive alone80%520
Carpool14%†91
Public transit0.0%0

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 Pike County, the county holding most of Barry's residents.

Pike County has 349 employer establishments, 243 for every 10,000 residents (0.98× the US rate of 248; 0.95× Illinois's), with 3,345 paid employees at an average annual pay of $41,611. The Census Bureau also counts 1,013 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 349; 1,013 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 243; US 248 · Illinois 255
Paid employees: 3,345
Average annual pay: $41,611; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	23	16	0.87×About typical	266	$15,936	7
Specialty trade contractors	21	14.6	0.95×About typical	88	$42,432	75
Truck transportation	20	13.9	2.76×More than typical	200	$58,340	41
Construction of buildings	16	11.1	1.47×More than typical	53	$35,528	44
Insurance agencies and brokerages	15	10.5	2.38×More than typical	41	$45,341	16
Religious organizations	15	10.5	1.88×More than typical	57	$16,491	—
Ambulatory health care services	13	9.1	0.43×Fewer than typical	112	$73,393	18
Banks and credit unions	13	9.1	2.80×More than typical	160	$60,969	—
Building equipment contractors	13	9.1	1.51×More than typical	57	$50,298	13
Full-service restaurants	13	9.1	1.18×About typical	118	$16,441	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	12	8.4	1.66×More than typical	37	$34,622	27
Gasoline stations	12	8.4	2.58×More than typical	125	$21,224	—

Rank places for an industry Open Pike County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 14,351 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 Barry, 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

165FY2023

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 Barry, Illinois, so they do not add up across cities.

Barry, Illinois's figures are part of those of Pike County, IL ($8,839 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: Barry is mostly in Pike County.

See federal money in Pike 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.

Barry, 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.

Pike County45100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Pike 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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