Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

Safety53#436/924
Economy47#491/925
Housing98#19/925
Health61#361/925
Healthcare31#641/923
Environment5#875/917
Education21#732/925
Infrastructure45#512/925
Community35#605/925
Leisure & amenities89#99/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Taylorville, IL micropolitan area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Severe housing problems · low8.1%
99/100Illinois 15.6%United States 16.8%2017-2021University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAggregated from counties
Home price to income ratio · low1.8×
99/100Illinois 3.2×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Rent-burdened households · low35.9%
95/100Illinois 47.9%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Rent as share of income · low23.9%
95/100Illinois 29.1%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Uninsured residents (under 65) · low4.9%
94/100Illinois 8.1%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010
Restaurants and bars · high13.8 /10k
93/100Illinois 10.3 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsAggregated from counties

Weaknesses

New business applications · low6.2 /1k
1/100Illinois 14.9 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauAggregated from counties
Voter turnout · low40.0%
1/100Illinois 62.9%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionAggregated from counties
Dentists · low21 /100k
1/100Illinois 86 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAggregated from counties
Public EV charging ports · low0.6 /10k
4/100Illinois 4.8 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyAggregated from counties
Mental health providers · low78 /100k
7/100Illinois 355 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAggregated from counties
Preventable hospital stays · high4,136 /100k
7/100Illinois 3,343 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAggregated from counties

Trends

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

Drought exposureWorsening
3% (2021) → 44% (Oct 2025–Sep 2026)
+41 pts5 yearsUS 40% → 43%
New homes permittedImproving
0.8 /1k (2021) → 2.2 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+170%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Voter turnoutWorsening
73.2% (2020) → 40.0% (2024)
−33 pts4 yearsUS 68.5% → 65.2%
Gyms and fitness centersImproving
0.6 /10k (2020) → 0.9 /10k (2025)
+52%5 yearsUS 1.2 /10k → 1.3 /10k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
77.3% (2015-2019) → 87.7% (2020-2024)
+10 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Flu vaccinationsWorsening
44.0% (2019) → 35.0% (2023)
−9 pts4 yearsUS 48.0% → 44.0%

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, Taylorville, IL micropolitan area improved on 12 of 28 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 10 moved within the margin of error and 4 barely changed.

Earlier period
Latest period
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among metro and micro areas: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts. Periods differ by measure (most compare 2015-2019 with 2020-2024); each row names its own in its tooltip and in the table.

Improved12

Commute−2.4 min24.4 min → 22.0 min
Gyms+52%0.6 /10k → 0.9 /10k
Real income+38%$44,706 → $61,711
Restaurants+11%12.4 /10k → 13.8 /10k
Arts & recreation+19%5.0 /10k → 6.0 /10k

Declined2

Traffic deaths+34%16.4 /100k → 22.0 /100k
Pharmacies−13%2.1 /10k → 1.8 /10k

All 28 measures

Change of every measure of Taylorville, IL micropolitan area between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Arts, entertainment and recreation	5.0 /10k2020	6.0 /10k2025	+19%	Improved	74%
Average commute time	24.4 min2015-2019	22.0 min2020-2024	−2.4 min	Improved	98%
Average weekly wage	$8382020	$1,0062025	+20%	Improved	21%
Bachelor's degree or higher	17.1%2015-2019	17.1%2020-2024	+0 points	Within the margin of error	8%
Broadband subscriptions	77.3%2015-2019	87.7%2020-2024	+10 points	Improved	65%
Child poverty rate	14.7%2015-2019	11.2%2020-2024	−3.4 points	Within the margin of error	63%
Distance to an airport	81 mi2020	81 mi2025	0 mi	Little change	50%
Drug overdose deaths	23.9 /100k2020	14.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026	−40%	Improved	69%
Effective property tax rate	1.72%2015-2019	1.49%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	80%
Firearm deaths	11.4 /100k2020	10.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026	−11%	Improved	68%
Grocery stores	2.4 /10k2020	2.4 /10k2025	+1.5%	Little change	57%
Gyms and fitness centers	0.6 /10k2020	0.9 /10k2025	+52%	Improved	89%
High school diploma or higher	89.7%2015-2019	90.9%2020-2024	+1.2 points	Within the margin of error	36%
Home price to income ratio	1.7×2015-2019	1.8×2020-2024	+0.1×	Within the margin of error	88%
Homicide rate	3.9 /100k2020	4.0 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026	+2.6%	Little change	21%
Income adjusted for local prices	$44,7062019	$61,7112024	+38%	Improved	84%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4232015-2019	0.4442020-2024	+0.021	Within the margin of error	14%
Median household income	$52,8342015-2019	$62,6112020-2024	+19%	Improved	10%
New business applications	4.4 /1k2020	6.2 /1k2025	+41%	Improved	43%
Pharmacies	2.1 /10k2020	1.8 /10k2025	−13%	Declined	38%
Poverty rate	12.3%2015-2019	10.2%2020-2024	−2.1 points	Within the margin of error	75%
Public libraries	1.5 /10k2019	1.5 /10k2024	−3%	Little change	38%
Rent as share of income	26.7%2015-2019	23.9%2020-2024	−2.8 points	Within the margin of error	92%
Rent-burdened households	42.3%2015-2019	35.9%2020-2024	−6.4 points	Within the margin of error	92%
Restaurants and bars	12.4 /10k2020	13.8 /10k2025	+11%	Improved	82%
Traffic deaths	16.4 /100k2015-2019	22.0 /100k2020-2024	+34%	Declined	14%
Unemployment rate	7.1%2020	4.3%2025	−2.8 points	Improved	44%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	5.4%2015-2019	4.9%2020-2024	−0.5 points	Within the margin of error	58%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 786 metro and micro areas that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: Regional Economic Accounts; Local Area Unemployment Statistics; Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages; Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence; American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates; Business Formation Statistics; Public Libraries Survey; Fatality Analysis Reporting System; Distance to airports and intercity rail. 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 925 metro and micro areas 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.

Metro and micro areas like Taylorville, IL micropolitan area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Taylorville, IL micropolitan area 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, Taylorville, IL micropolitan area itself moved +2.2 points in standing on average over the same 27 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

33,538 residents

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

13,586 households (±330)

Taylorville, IL micropolitan area
United States share

Under $25k19%2,547
$25k–50k22%2,972
$50k–75k18%2,411

Homes

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

Owners and renters

13,586 households (±330)

Taylorville, IL micropolitan area
United States share

Own75%10,217
Rent25%3,369

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

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

14,930 workers (±490)

Taylorville, IL micropolitan area
United States share

Drive alone83%12,351
Carpool8.1%1,212
Public transit0.4%†57

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 no occupation wages for Taylorville, IL micropolitan area.

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.

Taylorville, IL has 709 employer establishments, 212 for every 10,000 residents (0.85× the US rate of 248), with 7,410 paid employees at an average annual pay of $52,454. The Census Bureau also counts 1,789 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 709; 1,789 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 212; US 248
Paid employees: 7,410
Average annual pay: $52,454; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	54	16.1	1.04×About typical	220	$63,727	167
Restaurants and other eating places	49	14.6	0.80×Fewer than typical	785	$17,437	7
Religious organizations	33	9.9	1.78×More than typical	242	$18,665	—
Truck transportation	32	9.6	1.89×More than typical	153	$57,895	55
Ambulatory health care services	27	8.1	0.39×Fewer than typical	304	$50,720	53
Full-service restaurants	26	7.8	1.01×About typical	281	$17,690	4
Drinking places (alcoholic beverages)	24	7.2	5.91×More than typical	115	$12,678	4
Banks and credit unions	23	6.9	2.13×More than typical	211	$51,583	—
Building equipment contractors	23	6.9	1.14×About typical	103	$59,903	24
Gasoline stations	22	6.6	2.03×More than typical	198	$28,268	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	21	6.3	1.24×About typical	57	$51,421	28
Construction of buildings	21	6.3	0.83×About typical	80	$49,788	51

Rank places for an industry

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 33,501 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.
A metro area's figures are the exact sums of its counties.
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 contract spending

In FY2026, federal agencies obligated $32.5K on contracts performed in Taylorville, IL micropolitan area: $0.97 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $32.5K; −88% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0.97; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; 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

Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$26.7K82%
Forest Service$5,80018%

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

245.6KFY2017
325.6KFY2018
56.7KFY2019
115.4KFY2020
23.4KFY2021
127.9KFY2022
125.3KFY2023
46.7K

Top industries (NAICS)

Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment repair and maintenance · 8113$26.7K82%
Other professional, scientific, and technical services · 5419$5,80018%

Largest awards

GO REMOTE SENSING & GEOSPATIAL SUPPORT-KINCAID LAKE$106.8K
REDCASTLE RESOURCES INC· Christian County, IL· Professional services· Mar 19, 2025 – Apr 2, 2026· 12441925F0014
THE U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS IS SEEKING TO PURCHASE ONE (1) PATROL BOAT WITH AN IN-LINE JET ENGINE AND TOWING TRAILER UNDER NAICS CODE: 336612 FOR A SMALL BUSINESS SIZE STANDARD OF UP TO 1,000 EMPLOYEES.$93K
B & R MARINE, LLC· Christian County, IL· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Sep 4, 2025 – Feb 2, 2026· W912EK25CA020
FY26 P1 SLOAN FIN MOWER LANDSCAPE SEP26 "EO 14398"$26.7K
SLOAN IMPLEMENT COMPANY INC· Christian County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 2, 2026 – Sep 2, 2026· 15B41826P00000189

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.

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

In FY2026, federal agencies obligated $229.5M in grants, loans, direct payments and insurance for Taylorville, IL micropolitan area: $6,861 per resident (US $12,955).

Assistance · FY2026: $229.5M; −3.2% vs FY2025
Per resident: $6,861; US $12,955
Loan face value: $7.7M; lent or guaranteed
To individuals: 7.0%; counted, never named

Top programs

96.002 · Social Security Retirement Insurance$141.7M62%
64.109 · Veterans Compensation for Service-Connected Disability$19.3M8.4%

Counties in Taylorville, IL

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

Christian CountyCentral county5433,443

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

TaylorvillePrincipal city10,646

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

Other metro and micro areas in Illinois

Areas based in Illinois, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

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.

Mapping Injury, Overdose, and ViolenceCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2026-10-01
PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Daily county PM2.5 and ozone (EPA downscaler model)Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · release 2022
Care Compare: Hospital General Information and Timely and Effective CareCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services · release 2026-07-22
Distance to airports and intercity railFederal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau · release 2025+amtrak-2026-04-23
Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Return A master filesFederal Bureau of Investigation · release 2025
Public Libraries SurveyInstitute of Museum and Library Services · release FY2024
U.S. Drought Monitor county statisticsNational Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAA · release 2026-09-29
Fatality Analysis Reporting SystemNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration · release 2024
nClimGrid-Daily county averagesNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · release 2025
Regional Economic AccountsU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · release 2024
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
Quarterly Census of Employment and WagesU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2026 Q1
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Business Formation StatisticsU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-10-01
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
Alternative Fuels Data Center station locatorU.S. Department of Energy · release 2026-10
Election Administration and Voting SurveyU.S. Election Assistance Commission · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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Scores by category

Strengths · Weaknesses

Strengths

Weaknesses

Trends

What changed in five years

Improved12

Declined2

Metro and micro areas like Taylorville, IL micropolitan area five years ago that improved

Who lives here

Age and sex

Income

Household income

Homes

Owners and renters

Getting to work

How people get to work

Jobs and pay

Local businesses

Federal contract spending

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

Top industries (NAICS)

Largest awards

Federal grants & assistance

Top programs

Counties in Taylorville, IL

Principal cities

Largest cities and towns

Other metro and micro areas in Illinois

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Similar metro and micro areas

Data and sources

Improved12

Declined2

Age and sex

Household income

Owners and renters

How people get to work

Race and Hispanic origin

Education

Rent paid

Home values

Age of homes

Size of homes

Time to get to work

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

Top industries (NAICS)

Largest awards

Top programs

What was bought

Top recipients (organizations)

Top agencies

By type

Assistance by fiscal year

County aggregates