Ina is a village in Jefferson County, Illinois, part of the Mount Vernon, IL metro area. It has 1,560 residents. Ina, Illinois has a quality-of-life score of 12 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,783 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Illinois it ranks #683 of 697 cities and towns. It ranks best on social associations (high), home price to income ratio (low) and depression (low). It ranks worst on bachelor's degree or higher (low), unemployment rate (high) and grocery stores (low).
12Very low
Quality-of-life score
#13,783 of 15,651 cities and towns
Illinois
#683 of 697 in IL
Population
1,560 (2020-2024)
Land area
2 mi²
Density
648.4 /mi²
FIPS code
1737179
Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.
Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.
Safety22#12,244/15,637
Economy8#14,378/15,631
Housing72#4,215/14,977
Health29#11,072/15,609
Healthcare25#11,730/15,650
Environment33#10,425/15,453
Education6#14,758/15,649
Infrastructure13#13,663/15,650
Community19#12,630/15,651
Leisure & amenities38#9,766/15,651
Strengths · Weaknesses
Indicators where Ina, Illinois ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Jefferson 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.
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.
Cities and towns like Ina, Illinois five years ago that improved
The places whose measures looked most like those of Ina, 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.
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).
Income
How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.
Homes
Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.
Getting to work
How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.
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.
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.
Federal contracts performed here
Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Ina is mostly in Jefferson County.
Over about five years, Ina, Illinois improved on 0 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 10 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.
Improved0
No measure improved by more than its margin of error.
Declined0
No measure declined by more than its margin of error.
All 10 measures
Change of every measure of Ina, Illinois between two periods about five years apart
Measure
Before
After
Change
Reading
Favourable vs peers
Average commute time
24.5 min2015-2019
15.4 min2020-2024
−9.1 min
Within the margin of error
98%
Broadband subscriptions
74.2%2015-2019
80.4%2020-2024
+6.1 points
Within the margin of error
38%
High school diploma or higher
60.5%2015-2019
68.3%2020-2024
+7.8 points
Within the margin of error
91%
Home price to income ratio
1.7×2015-2019
1.9×2020-2024
+0.3×
Within the margin of error
63%
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.4082015-2019
0.4512020-2024
+0.043
Within the margin of error
20%
Median household income
$40,4552015-2019
$54,0002020-2024
+33%
Within the margin of error
62%
Poverty rate
24.8%2015-2019
19.7%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
27.0%2015-2019
23.9%2020-2024
−3.1 points
Within the margin of error
75%
Rent-burdened households
42.0%2015-2019
39.4%2020-2024
−2.5 points
Within the margin of error
65%
“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.
For comparison, Ina, Illinois itself moved +3.4 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.
Household income
224 households (±46)
Ina, Illinois
Illinois share
Under $25k29%†64
Under $25k
29%±10.2 points
64 households±26 (90% margin of error)
15%in Illinois
15%in United States
+0.8 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$25k–50k20%†45
$25k–50k
20%±10.6 points
45 households±25 (90% margin of error)
16%in Illinois
17%in United States
−9.7 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$50k–75k15%†34
$50k–75k
15%±7.6 points
34 households±18 (90% margin of error)
15%in Illinois
16%in United States
−8.6 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$75k–100k8.9%†20
$75k–100k
8.9%±5.0 points
20 households±12 (90% margin of error)
13%in Illinois
13%in United States
−1.2 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$100k–150k18%†41
$100k–150k
18%±12.0 points
41 households±28 (90% margin of error)
18%in Illinois
18%in United States
+14.8 pointssince 2015–2019
Wide margin of error: read with care
$150k–200k5.4%†12
$150k–200k
5.4%±8.4 points
12 households±19 (90% margin of error)
10%in Illinois
9.6%in United States
+1.3 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$200k or more3.6%†8
$200k or more
3.6%±4.0 points
8 households±9 (90% margin of error)
14%in Illinois
13%in United States
+2.6 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $100k–150k (+14.8 points).
† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.
The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Jefferson County, the county holding most of Ina's residents.
Jefferson County has 882 employer establishments, 243 for every 10,000 residents (0.98× the US rate of 248; 0.95× Illinois's), with 19,260 paid employees at an average annual pay of $52,209. The Census Bureau also counts 2,283 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.
Establishments
882
2,283 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
243
US 248 · Illinois 255
Paid employees
19,260
Average annual pay
$52,209
US $68,342
Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Jefferson County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation
County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)
Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 36,306 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.
No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.
