Scores by category

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

Safety67#5,109/15,637
Economy6#14,742/15,631
Housing86#2,142/14,977
Health32#10,563/15,609
Healthcare20#12,469/15,650
Environment5#14,681/15,453
Education17#12,977/15,649
Infrastructure8#14,378/15,650
Community26#11,591/15,651
Leisure & amenities47#8,256/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Social associations · high20.9 /10k
98/100Illinois 9.8 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLawrence County value
Property crime rate · low280 /100k
97/100Illinois 1,508 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureLawrence County value
Home price to income ratio · low1.7×
96/100Illinois 3.2×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Time spent in the emergency room · low102 min
96/100Illinois 170 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesLawrence County value
New homes permitted · high17.5 /1k
94/100Illinois 1.5 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
Mental health providers · high622 /100k
94/100Illinois 355 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLawrence County value

Weaknesses

Grocery stores · low0.0 /10k
0/100Illinois 1.9 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsLawrence County value
Dentists · low7 /100k
1/100Illinois 86 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLawrence County value
Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100Illinois 4.8 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyLawrence County value
Job growth · low-3.8%
4/100Illinois 0.0%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataLawrence County value
Voter turnout · low50.9%
5/100Illinois 62.9%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionLawrence County value
Primary care physicians · low20 /100k
5/100Illinois 82 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLawrence County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
4,165 (2015-2019) → 3,941 (2020-2024)
−5.4%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateImproving
43.0% (2015-2019) → 26.2% (2020-2024)
−17 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
74.4% (2015-2019) → 86.0% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Poverty rateImproving
25.4% (2015-2019) → 17.4% (2020-2024)
−7.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Unemployment rateWorsening
3.3% (2015-2019) → 9.1% (2020-2024)
+5.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
High school diploma or higherImproving
86.9% (2015-2019) → 91.2% (2020-2024)
+4.3 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, Lawrenceville, Illinois improved on 2 of 13 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.

Improved2

Child poverty−17 points43.0% → 26.2%
Broadband+12 points74.4% → 86.0%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Lawrenceville, Illinois between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	19.0 min2015-2019	19.5 min2020-2024	+0.6 min	Within the margin of error	41%
Bachelor's degree or higher	16.4%2015-2019	15.5%2020-2024	−0.9 points	Within the margin of error	22%
Broadband subscriptions	74.4%2015-2019	86.0%2020-2024	+12 points	Improved	68%
Child poverty rate	43.0%2015-2019	26.2%2020-2024	−17 points	Improved	91%
Effective property tax rate	1.69%2015-2019	1.15%2020-2024	−0.5 points	Within the margin of error	92%
High school diploma or higher	86.9%2015-2019	91.2%2020-2024	+4.3 points	Within the margin of error	78%
Home price to income ratio	1.8×2015-2019	1.7×2020-2024	−0.1×	Within the margin of error	82%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4382015-2019	0.3922020-2024	−0.046	Within the margin of error	82%
Median household income	$40,4382015-2019	$41,0052020-2024	+1.4%	Within the margin of error	9%
Poverty rate	25.4%2015-2019	17.4%2020-2024	−7.9 points	Within the margin of error	89%
Rent as share of income	29.3%2015-2019	28.7%2020-2024	−0.6 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent-burdened households	49.0%2015-2019	45.3%2020-2024	−3.7 points	Within the margin of error	68%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	8.7%2015-2019	11.2%2020-2024	+2.5 points	Within the margin of error	22%

“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 Lawrenceville, Illinois five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Lawrenceville, 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, Lawrenceville, Illinois itself moved +6.1 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

3,941 residents (±411)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: 30–39 men (+10.3 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

3,941 residents (±411)

Lawrenceville, Illinois
Illinois share

White83%3,290
Black4.1%†161
Hispanic or Latino0.0%0

Education

2,856 residents (±318)

Lawrenceville, Illinois
Illinois share

No high school diploma8.8%†251
High school or GED37%†1,043
Some college27%773

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

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

Household income

1,619 households (±182)

Lawrenceville, Illinois
Illinois share

Under $25k22%†358
$25k–50k38%610
$50k–75k20%†326
$75k–100k10%†162
$100k–150k5.3%†86
$150k–200k4.4%†72
$200k or more0.3%†5

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $25k–50k (+14.0 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,619 households (±182)

Lawrenceville, Illinois
Illinois share

Own58%939
Rent42%680

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

556 households (±150)

Lawrenceville, Illinois
Illinois share

Under $75037%†206
$750–1,00053%†293
$1,000–1,5008.5%†47

Home values

939 homes (±166)

Lawrenceville, Illinois
Illinois share

Under $150k87%813
$150k–250k8.3%†78
$250k–400k1.9%†18

Age of homes

1,966 homes (±191)

Lawrenceville, Illinois
Illinois share

2010 or later0.3%†6
2000–20091.7%†33
1980–19997.2%†141

Size of homes

1,966 homes (±191)

Lawrenceville, Illinois
Illinois share

Studio1.7%†33
1 bedroom9.4%†185
2 bedrooms44%860

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

1,350 workers (±313)

Lawrenceville, Illinois
Illinois share

Drive alone72%†971
Carpool5.8%†78
Public transit1.4%†19
Walk6.9%†93
Bike0.0%0
Work from home14%†189
Other0.0%0

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Work from home (+10.4 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

1,161 workers (±305)

Lawrenceville, Illinois
Illinois share

Under 15 min54%†631
15–29 min19%†217
30–44 min19%†223

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

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 Lawrence County, the county holding most of Lawrenceville's residents.

Lawrence County has 247 employer establishments, 181 for every 10,000 residents (0.73× the US rate of 248; 0.71× Illinois's), with 2,737 paid employees at an average annual pay of $44,539. The Census Bureau also counts 780 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 247; 780 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 181; US 248 · Illinois 255
Paid employees: 2,737
Average annual pay: $44,539; US $68,342

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

Religious organizations	27	19.8	3.56×More than typical	45	$19,711	—
Restaurants and other eating places	21	15.4	0.84×About typical	257	$15,825	4
Full-service restaurants	13	9.5	1.24×About typical	109	$11,844	—
Specialty trade contractors	12	8.8	0.57×Fewer than typical	69	$50,638	85
Banks and credit unions	10	7.3	2.27×More than typical	62	$39,032	—
Insurance agencies and brokerages	10	7.3	1.67×More than typical	62	$39,290	14
Truck transportation	10	7.3	1.45×More than typical	41	$53,341	20
Ambulatory health care services	7	5.1	0.25×Too few to compare	24	$46,375	29
Beer, wine and liquor stores	6	4.4	4.06×Too few to compare	17	$19,706	—
Gasoline stations	6	4.4	1.35×Too few to compare	71	$26,197	—
Limited-service restaurants	6	4.4	0.55×Too few to compare	143	$19,021	—
Services to buildings and dwellings	6	4.4	0.65×Too few to compare	41	$52,024	61

Rank places for an industry Open Lawrence County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 13,659 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 Lawrenceville, 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

36.6KFY2018
7.5KFY2019
78.1FY2020
0.9FY2021
-0.7FY2022
2KFY2024
-62.1FY2025

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

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

See federal money in Lawrence 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.

Lawrenceville, 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.

Lawrence County44100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Lawrence 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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