Rossville is a village in Vermilion County, Illinois, part of the Danville, IL metro area. It has 1,332 residents. Rossville, Illinois has a quality-of-life score of 15 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,378 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Illinois it ranks #673 of 697 cities and towns. It ranks best on home price to income ratio (low), public libraries (high) and social associations (high). It ranks worst on violent crime rate (high), suicide rate (high) and property crime rate (high).
15Very low
Quality-of-life score
#13,378 of 15,651 cities and towns
Illinois
#673 of 697 in IL
Population
1,332 (2020-2024)
Land area
1 mi²
Density
953.1 /mi²
FIPS code
1765962
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.
Safety3#15,107/15,637
Economy39#9,468/15,631
Housing56#6,639/14,977
Health9#14,224/15,609
Healthcare24#11,938/15,650
Environment46#8,411/15,453
Education10#14,083/15,649
Infrastructure12#13,815/15,650
Community35#10,111/15,651
Leisure & amenities56#6,847/15,651
Strengths · Weaknesses
Indicators where Rossville, Illinois ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Vermilion 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.
1/100Illinois 251 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureVermilion County value
2/100Illinois 1,508 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureVermilion County value
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 Rossville, Illinois five years ago that improved
The places whose measures looked most like those of Rossville, 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: Rossville is mostly in Vermilion County.
Over about five years, Rossville, Illinois improved on 0 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 12 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 12 measures
Change of every measure of Rossville, Illinois between two periods about five years apart
Measure
Before
After
Change
Reading
Favourable vs peers
Average commute time
25.8 min2015-2019
23.6 min2020-2024
−2.2 min
Within the margin of error
72%
Bachelor's degree or higher
14.7%2015-2019
17.3%2020-2024
+2.6 points
Within the margin of error
48%
Broadband subscriptions
79.6%2015-2019
87.3%2020-2024
+7.8 points
Within the margin of error
48%
Effective property tax rate
1.86%2015-2019
2.17%2020-2024
+0.3 points
Within the margin of error
1%
High school diploma or higher
91.7%2015-2019
89.4%2020-2024
−2.3 points
Within the margin of error
14%
Home price to income ratio
1.5×2015-2019
1.5×2020-2024
+0.0×
Within the margin of error
79%
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.3892015-2019
0.4422020-2024
+0.053
Within the margin of error
15%
Median household income
$52,6922015-2019
$62,4172020-2024
+18%
Within the margin of error
30%
Poverty rate
11.9%2015-2019
10.4%2020-2024
−1.5 points
Within the margin of error
58%
Rent as share of income
14.7%2015-2019
30.3%2020-2024
+16 points
Within the margin of error
4%
Rent-burdened households
24.6%2015-2019
51.4%2020-2024
+27 points
Within the margin of error
4%
Uninsured residents (under 65)
2.9%2015-2019
4.1%2020-2024
+1.2 points
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.
For comparison, Rossville, Illinois itself moved −18.4 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.
The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Vermilion County, the county holding most of Rossville's residents.
Vermilion County has 1,300 employer establishments, 181 for every 10,000 residents (0.73× the US rate of 248; 0.71× Illinois's), with 23,008 paid employees at an average annual pay of $50,432. The Census Bureau also counts 4,013 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.
Establishments
1,300
4,013 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
181
US 248 · Illinois 255
Paid employees
23,008
Average annual pay
$50,432
US $68,342
Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Vermilion 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: 71,666 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.
Rossville, Illinois is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).
