Village · Effingham County, Illinois

Dieterich, Illinois

Dieterich is a village in Effingham County, Illinois, part of the Effingham, IL metro area. It has 1,169 residents. Dieterich, Illinois has a quality-of-life score of 75 out of 100 (high), ranking #3,953 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Illinois it ranks #128 of 697 cities and towns. It ranks best on dentists (high), mammography screening (high) and distance to an Amtrak station (low). It ranks worst on distance to an airport (high), mental health care shortage (high) and primary care shortage (high).

75High

Quality-of-life score: #3,953 of 15,651 cities and towns
Illinois: #128 of 697 in IL
Population: 1,169 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 855.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 1719915

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 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.

Safety77#3,521/15,637
Economy52#7,469/15,631
Housing60#5,948/14,977
Health68#4,948/15,609
Healthcare58#6,497/15,650
Environment48#8,050/15,453
Education75#3,871/15,649
Infrastructure42#9,070/15,650
Community74#4,127/15,651
Leisure & amenities94#925/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Dentists · high169 /100k
100/100Illinois 86 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteEffingham County value
Mammography screening · high59.0%
98/100Illinois 47.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteEffingham County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · low5 mi
96/100Illinois 13 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauEffingham County value
Reading scores · high3.43
96/100Illinois 2.97United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteEffingham County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Illinois 6.2 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataEffingham County value
Social associations · high15.7 /10k
93/100Illinois 9.8 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteEffingham County value

Weaknesses

Distance to an airport · high100 mi
10/100Illinois 35 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauEffingham County value
Mental health care shortage · high18.0
11/100Illinois 12.2United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationEffingham County value
Primary care shortage · high16.0
14/100Illinois 6.6United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationEffingham County value
Traffic deaths · high23.2 /100k
15/100Illinois 9.8 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataEffingham County value
Effective property tax rate · high1.65%
16/100Illinois 1.88%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Flu vaccinations · low35.0%
17/100Illinois 48.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteEffingham County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
594 (2015-2019) → 1,169 (2020-2024)
+97%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
30.3% (2015-2019) → 46.9% (2020-2024)
+17 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
18.8% (2015-2019) → 31.2% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
76.8% (2015-2019) → 87.7% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.8× (2015-2019) → 2.7× (2020-2024)
+50%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
1.7% (2015-2019) → 7.5% (2020-2024)
+5.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%

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, Dieterich, Illinois improved on 1 of 8 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 7 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.

Improved1

Bachelor's++12 points18.8% → 31.2%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 8 measures

Change of every measure of Dieterich, Illinois between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	20.8 min2015-2019	24.5 min2020-2024	+3.7 min	Within the margin of error	15%
Bachelor's degree or higher	18.8%2015-2019	31.2%2020-2024	+12 points	Improved	94%
Broadband subscriptions	76.8%2015-2019	87.7%2020-2024	+11 points	Within the margin of error	64%
Effective property tax rate	1.74%2015-2019	1.65%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	32%
High school diploma or higher	89.4%2015-2019	85.8%2020-2024	−3.6 points	Within the margin of error	9%
Home price to income ratio	1.8×2015-2019	2.7×2020-2024	+0.9×	Within the margin of error	26%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3462015-2019	0.4052020-2024	+0.058	Within the margin of error	13%
Median household income	$62,1592015-2019	$74,5002020-2024	+20%	Within the margin of error	33%

“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 Dieterich, Illinois five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Dieterich, 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, Dieterich, Illinois itself moved −10.8 points in standing on average over the same 8 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

1,169 residents (±242)

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

456 households (±101)

Dieterich, Illinois
Illinois share

Under $25k16%†72
$25k–50k18%†80
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

456 households (±101)

Dieterich, Illinois
Illinois share

Own74%339
Rent26%†117

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (−9.4 points).

† 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

557 workers (±118)

Dieterich, Illinois
Illinois share

Drive alone82%454
Carpool4.1%†23
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 Effingham, 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 Effingham County, the county holding most of Dieterich's residents.

Effingham County has 1,263 employer establishments, 367 for every 10,000 residents (1.48× the US rate of 248; 1.44× Illinois's), with 32,183 paid employees at an average annual pay of $50,873. The Census Bureau also counts 2,857 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,263; 2,857 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 367; US 248 · Illinois 255
Paid employees: 32,183
Average annual pay: $50,873; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	112	32.5	1.56×More than typical	1,273	$75,588	118
Specialty trade contractors	92	26.7	1.73×More than typical	730	$66,644	211
Restaurants and other eating places	72	20.9	1.14×About typical	1,723	$22,109	7
Automotive repair and maintenance	54	15.7	3.11×More than typical	449	$46,158	40
Construction of buildings	40	11.6	1.54×More than typical	279	$64,781	81
Offices of other health practitioners	40	11.6	1.91×More than typical	120	$46,558	68
Limited-service restaurants	39	11.3	1.41×More than typical	889	$21,062	5
Truck transportation	39	11.3	2.24×More than typical	555	$64,283	55
Religious organizations	35	10.2	1.83×More than typical	350	$24,143	—
Building equipment contractors	34	9.9	1.64×More than typical	332	$64,383	32
Services to buildings and dwellings	33	9.6	1.42×More than typical	228	$41,846	184
Lessors of real estate	30	8.7	0.71×Fewer than typical	105	$71,029	351

Rank places for an industry Open Effingham County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 34,450 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

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

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

See federal money in Effingham 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.

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

House

Mike BostR-IL-12 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 1.6%

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.

Effingham County93100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Effingham, IL88

Other cities and towns in Effingham 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
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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