Scores by category

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

Safety88#1,799/15,637
Economy18#12,798/15,631
Housing59#6,200/14,977
Health63#5,707/15,609
Healthcare19#12,654/15,650
Environment47#8,175/15,453
Education57#6,689/15,649
Infrastructure21#12,397/15,650
Community52#7,436/15,651
Leisure & amenities41#9,310/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Warsaw, Illinois ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Hancock 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 · high22.7 /10k
99/100Illinois 9.8 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteHancock County value
Property crime rate · low182 /100k
99/100Illinois 1,508 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2024Federal Bureau of InvestigationHancock County value
Public libraries · high4.7 /10k
99/100Illinois 0.6 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesHancock County value
Drug overdose deaths · low0.0 /100k
99/100Illinois 14.2 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100k2024Centers for Disease Control and PreventionHancock 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
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Illinois 6.2 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataHancock County value

Weaknesses

Grocery stores · low0.6 /10k
3/100Illinois 1.9 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsHancock County value
Unemployment rate · high14.6%
3/100Illinois 4.6%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
Average weekly wage · low$930
9/100Illinois $1,539United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsHancock County value
Distance to an airport · high104 mi
9/100Illinois 35 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauHancock County value
Effective property tax rate · high1.88%
10/100Illinois 1.88%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Primary care physicians · low29 /100k
11/100Illinois 82 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteHancock County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
1,690 (2015-2019) → 1,518 (2020-2024)
−10%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
35.9% (2015-2019) → 47.2% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
18.2% (2015-2019) → 28.4% (2020-2024)
+10 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Unemployment rateWorsening
5.1% (2015-2019) → 14.6% (2020-2024)
+9.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
72.0% (2015-2019) → 80.6% (2020-2024)
+8.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
4.5% (2015-2019) → 8.5% (2020-2024)
+4 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, Warsaw, Illinois improved on 0 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 14 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 14 measures

Change of every measure of Warsaw, Illinois between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	22.8 min2015-2019	23.4 min2020-2024	+0.7 min	Within the margin of error	40%
Bachelor's degree or higher	20.3%2015-2019	19.3%2020-2024	−1 points	Within the margin of error	21%
Broadband subscriptions	72.0%2015-2019	80.6%2020-2024	+8.6 points	Within the margin of error	53%
Child poverty rate	14.9%2015-2019	17.5%2020-2024	+2.7 points	Within the margin of error	28%
Effective property tax rate	1.97%2015-2019	1.88%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	33%
High school diploma or higher	91.9%2015-2019	94.3%2020-2024	+2.4 points	Within the margin of error	63%
Home price to income ratio	1.5×2015-2019	1.6×2020-2024	+0.1×	Within the margin of error	73%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4342015-2019	0.4312020-2024	−0.002	Within the margin of error	53%
Median household income	$54,7582015-2019	$58,7502020-2024	+7.3%	Within the margin of error	14%
Poverty rate	12.8%2015-2019	11.8%2020-2024	−1 points	Within the margin of error	53%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	18.2%2015-2019	28.4%2020-2024	+10 points	Within the margin of error	9%
Rent-burdened households	35.9%2015-2019	47.2%2020-2024	+11 points	Within the margin of error	21%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	4.5%2015-2019	8.5%2020-2024	+4 points	Within the margin of error	14%

“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 Warsaw, Illinois five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Warsaw, 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, Warsaw, Illinois itself moved −11 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

1,518 residents (±240)

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: Under 10 men (−4.6 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

1,518 residents (±240)

Warsaw, Illinois
Illinois share

White97%1,465
Black0.2%†3
Hispanic or Latino0.2%†3
Asian0.0%0
American Indian and Alaska Native0.0%0
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander0.3%†4
Other or two or more races2.8%†43

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

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B03002View table on data.census.gov

Education

1,079 residents (±162)

Warsaw, Illinois
Illinois share

No high school diploma5.7%†61
High school or GED37%395
Some college25%268
Associate degree14%†147
Bachelor's degree13%†135
Graduate degree6.8%†73

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

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B15003View 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.

Income

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

Household income

701 households (±112)

Warsaw, Illinois
Illinois share

Under $25k13%†93
$25k–50k29%†204
$50k–75k21%†145
$75k–100k14%†95
$100k–150k18%†128
$150k–200k4.4%†31
$200k or more0.7%†5

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $150k–200k (+3.8 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

701 households (±112)

Warsaw, Illinois
Illinois share

Own80%564
Rent20%†137

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

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

Table view

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

Rent paid

125 households (±42)

Warsaw, Illinois
Illinois share

Under $75037%†46
$750–1,00034%†43
$1,000–1,50017%†21

Home values

564 homes (±110)

Warsaw, Illinois
Illinois share

Under $150k74%418
$150k–250k17%†95
$250k–400k5.7%†32

Age of homes

817 homes (±115)

Warsaw, Illinois
Illinois share

2010 or later2.1%†17
2000–20094.9%†40
1980–199914%†117

Size of homes

817 homes (±115)

Warsaw, Illinois
Illinois share

Studio4.2%†34
1 bedroom4.7%†38
2 bedrooms25%†205

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

625 workers (±119)

Warsaw, Illinois
Illinois share

Drive alone88%548
Carpool3.2%†20
Public transit0.0%0
Walk1.1%†7
Bike0.0%0
Work from home7.8%†49
Other0.2%†1

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Work from home (+5.0 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 B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

576 workers (±115)

Warsaw, Illinois
Illinois share

Under 15 min34%197
15–29 min33%190
30–44 min16%†90

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 Hancock County, the county holding most of Warsaw's residents.

Hancock County has 365 employer establishments, 212 for every 10,000 residents (0.86× the US rate of 248; 0.83× Illinois's), with 2,706 paid employees at an average annual pay of $45,787. The Census Bureau also counts 1,247 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 365; 1,247 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 212; US 248 · Illinois 255
Paid employees: 2,706
Average annual pay: $45,787; US $68,342

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

Religious organizations	31	18	3.25×More than typical	98	$18,388	—
Restaurants and other eating places	22	12.8	0.70×Fewer than typical	141	$23,305	9
Ambulatory health care services	15	8.7	0.42×Fewer than typical	124	$31,185	28
Gasoline stations	15	8.7	2.69×More than typical	138	$25,319	—
Truck transportation	15	8.7	1.73×More than typical	52	$56,712	55
Insurance agencies and brokerages	14	8.1	1.85×More than typical	33	$46,727	19
Specialty trade contractors	14	8.1	0.53×Fewer than typical	56	$59,893	123
Banks and credit unions	12	7	2.16×More than typical	110	$49,982	—
Construction of buildings	12	7	0.92×About typical	55	$41,909	62
Full-service restaurants	12	7	0.91×About typical	50	$24,140	4
Lessors of real estate	9	5.2	0.42×Too few to compare	66	$33,424	129
Services to buildings and dwellings	9	5.2	0.78×Too few to compare	16	$23,313	100

Rank places for an industry Open Hancock County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 17,192 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 Warsaw, Illinois: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0; −100% vs FY2025
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

1.4KFY2021
598.4KFY2022
-20.4KFY2023
5.3KFY2025

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

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

See federal money in Hancock 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.

Warsaw, 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.

Hancock County69100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Hancock 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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