City · Moultrie County, Illinois

Sullivan, Illinois

Sullivan is a city in Moultrie County, Illinois. It has 4,348 residents. Sullivan, Illinois has a quality-of-life score of 44 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #8,789 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Illinois it ranks #402 of 697 cities and towns. It ranks best on property crime rate (low), home price to income ratio (low) and public libraries (high). It ranks worst on dentists (low), preventable hospital stays (high) and public EV charging ports (low).

44Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #8,789 of 15,651 cities and towns
Illinois: #402 of 697 in IL
Population: 4,348 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 1,570.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 1773495

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 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.

Safety85#2,288/15,637
Economy49#7,953/15,631
Housing63#5,538/14,977
Health42#9,080/15,609
Healthcare13#13,691/15,650
Environment20#12,408/15,453
Education21#12,345/15,649
Infrastructure47#8,240/15,650
Community64#5,597/15,651
Leisure & amenities69#4,923/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Property crime rate · low177 /100k
99/100Illinois 1,508 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationMoultrie County value
Home price to income ratio · low1.6×
97/100Illinois 3.2×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Public libraries · high2.8 /10k
95/100Illinois 0.6 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesMoultrie County value
Pharmacies · high2.8 /10k
94/100Illinois 2.0 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMoultrie County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Illinois 6.2 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataMoultrie County value
Food environment index · high9.1
89/100Illinois 8.4United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMoultrie County value

Weaknesses

Dentists · low14 /100k
2/100Illinois 86 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMoultrie County value
Preventable hospital stays · high4,761 /100k
3/100Illinois 3,343 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMoultrie County value
Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100Illinois 4.8 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyMoultrie County value
Primary care physicians · low21 /100k
5/100Illinois 82 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMoultrie County value
Distance to an airport · high112 mi
7/100Illinois 35 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauMoultrie County value
Distance to an emergency room · high14.1 mi
8/100Illinois 4.0 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesMoultrie County value

Trends

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

New homes permittedImproving
0.4 /1k (2021) → 3.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+578%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
38.4% (2015-2019) → 52.9% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateImproving
18.7% (2015-2019) → 7.6% (2020-2024)
−11 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
22.0% (2015-2019) → 30.7% (2020-2024)
+8.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Income inequality (Gini index)Worsening
0.353 (2015-2019) → 0.450 (2020-2024)
+28%5 yearsCensus table B19083US 0.482 → 0.483
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
82.5% (2015-2019) → 87.8% (2020-2024)
+5.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%

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, Sullivan, Illinois improved on 0 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 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.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined1

Inequality+0.0970.353 → 0.450

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Sullivan, Illinois between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	19.5 min2015-2019	16.3 min2020-2024	−3.1 min	Within the margin of error	80%
Bachelor's degree or higher	18.9%2015-2019	15.9%2020-2024	−3 points	Within the margin of error	12%
Broadband subscriptions	82.5%2015-2019	87.8%2020-2024	+5.3 points	Within the margin of error	34%
Effective property tax rate	1.81%2015-2019	1.94%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	5%
High school diploma or higher	91.8%2015-2019	90.2%2020-2024	−1.6 points	Within the margin of error	18%
Home price to income ratio	1.6×2015-2019	1.6×2020-2024	−0.0×	Within the margin of error	80%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3532015-2019	0.4502020-2024	+0.097	Declined	5%
Median household income	$56,3752015-2019	$63,2292020-2024	+12%	Within the margin of error	19%
Poverty rate	12.2%2015-2019	10.3%2020-2024	−1.9 points	Within the margin of error	62%
Rent as share of income	22.0%2015-2019	30.7%2020-2024	+8.7 points	Within the margin of error	11%
Rent-burdened households	38.4%2015-2019	52.9%2020-2024	+14 points	Within the margin of error	15%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	8.0%2015-2019	7.8%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	48%

“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 Sullivan, Illinois five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Sullivan, 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, Sullivan, Illinois itself moved −21.6 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

4,348 residents (±331)

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

1,836 households (±134)

Sullivan, Illinois
Illinois share

Under $25k17%†315
$25k–50k22%†401
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,836 households (±134)

Sullivan, Illinois
Illinois share

Own69%1,260
Rent31%576

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

1,962 workers (±193)

Sullivan, Illinois
Illinois share

Drive alone75%1,476
Carpool12%†239
Public transit0.8%†

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 Moultrie County, the county holding most of Sullivan's residents.

Moultrie County has 336 employer establishments, 234 for every 10,000 residents (0.94× the US rate of 248; 0.92× Illinois's), with 5,029 paid employees at an average annual pay of $50,534. The Census Bureau also counts 1,116 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 336; 1,116 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 234; US 248 · Illinois 255
Paid employees: 5,029
Average annual pay: $50,534; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	31	21.6	1.40×More than typical	232	$68,625	126
Construction of buildings	20	13.9	1.84×More than typical	103	$78,660	30
Ambulatory health care services	18	12.6	0.60×Fewer than typical	107	$56,785	17
Religious organizations	18	12.6	2.26×More than typical	65	$18,323	—
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	14	9.8	3.10×More than typical	133	$63,361	25
Restaurants and other eating places	13	9.1	0.49×Fewer than typical	143	$20,902	3
Services to buildings and dwellings	10	7	1.03×About typical	37	$37,297	108
Drinking places (alcoholic beverages)	9	6.3	5.18×Too few to compare	40	$21,450	—
Truck transportation	9	6.3	1.24×Too few to compare	182	$52,808	47
Banks and credit unions	8	5.6	1.73×Too few to compare	114	$46,833	3
Insurance agencies and brokerages	8	5.6	1.27×Too few to compare	20	$35,850	10
Offices of other health practitioners	8	5.6	0.92×Too few to compare	20	$31,650	6

Rank places for an industry Open Moultrie County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 14,339 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 Sullivan, 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

53.7FY2017
868.2FY2018
3.1KFY2019
988.3FY2020
1KFY2021
-413.6FY2022

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

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

See federal money in Moultrie 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.

Sullivan, 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.

Moultrie County58100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Moultrie 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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