County · Illinois

Clay County, Illinois

Clay County, Illinois has a quality-of-life score of 40 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #1,873 of 3,143 US counties. Within Illinois it ranks #83 of 102 counties. It ranks best on cost of buying a home today (low), home price to income ratio (low) and rent as share of income (low). It ranks worst on bachelor's degree or higher (low), primary care physicians (low) and grocery stores (low).

40Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #1,873 of 3,143 counties
Illinois: #83 of 102 in IL
Population: 12,793 (2025)
Land area: 468 mi²
Density: 27.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 17025

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 76 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US counties.

Safety56#1,375/3,096
Economy29#2,233/3,143
Housing95#163/3,140
Health48#1,645/3,144
Healthcare45#1,728/3,143
Environment13#2,698/3,108
Education24#2,380/3,144
Infrastructure34#2,083/3,144
Community49#1,601/3,144
Leisure & amenities47#1,665/3,143

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Clay County, Illinois ranks highest and lowest among US counties (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Cost of buying a home today · low15.1%
98/100Illinois 31.5%United States 34.1%Aug 2026Zillow Research
Home price to income ratio · low1.6×
98/100Illinois 3.2×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Rent as share of income · low19.4%
94/100Illinois 29.1%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Time spent in the emergency room · low96 min
91/100Illinois 170 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Social associations · high18.5 /10k
90/100Illinois 9.8 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
Injury deaths · low67 /100k
90/100Illinois 80 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute

Weaknesses

Bachelor's degree or higher · low13.1%
7/100Illinois 37.8%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Primary care physicians · low15 /100k
9/100Illinois 82 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
Grocery stores · low0.8 /10k
11/100Illinois 1.9 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
New business applications · low8.1 /1k
12/100Illinois 14.9 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census Bureau
Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
13/100Illinois 4.8 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of Energy
Comfortable days · low23.2%
13/100Illinois 24.0%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information

Trends

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

Drought exposureWorsening
0% (2021) → 45% (Oct 2025–Sep 2026)
+45 pts5 yearsUS 40% → 43%
Voter turnoutWorsening
93.7% (2020) → 68.6% (2024)
−25 pts4 yearsUS 68.5% → 65.2%
Violent crime rateWorsening
75 /100k (2016) → 161 /100k (2020)
+114%4 yearsUS 397 /100k → 389 /100k
Gyms and fitness centersImproving
0.8 /10k (2020) → 1.6 /10k (2025)
+107%5 yearsUS 1.2 /10k → 1.3 /10k
Preventable hospital staysWorsening
1,840 /100k (2019) → 3,788 /100k (2023)
+106%4 yearsUS 3,767 /100k → 2,769 /100k
Homicide rateImproving
4.3 /100k (2021) → 0.0 /100k (May 2025–Apr 2026)
−100%5 yearsUS 7.8 /100k → 4.8 /100k

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, Clay County, Illinois improved on 8 of 27 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 18 moved within the margin of error and 1 barely changed.

Earlier period
Latest period
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among counties: 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.

Improved8

Overdose deaths−100%19.5 /100k → 0.0 /100k
Weekly wage+35%$740 → $1,000
Real income+42%$44,215 → $62,848
Students / teacher−2.1×13.9× → 11.8×
Unemployment−4.4 points9.4% → 5.0%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 27 measures

Change of every measure of Clay County, Illinois between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Arts, entertainment and recreation	3.8 /10k2020	3.1 /10k2025	−17%	Within the margin of error	15%
Average commute time	22.0 min2015-2019	25.0 min2020-2024	+3.0 min	Within the margin of error	13%
Average weekly wage	$7402020	$1,0002025	+35%	Improved	94%
Bachelor's degree or higher	15.0%2015-2019	13.1%2020-2024	−1.9 points	Within the margin of error	5%
Broadband subscriptions	77.8%2015-2019	85.9%2020-2024	+8 points	Improved	32%
Child poverty rate	18.4%2019	15.6%2024	−2.8 points	Within the margin of error	69%
Distance to an airport	101 mi2020	101 mi2025	0 mi	Little change	50%
Drug overdose deaths	19.5 /100k2020	0.0 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026	−100%	Improved	97%
Effective property tax rate	1.17%2015-2019	1.22%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	7%
Grocery stores	1.5 /10k2020	0.8 /10k2025	−48%	Within the margin of error	5%
Gyms and fitness centers	0.8 /10k2020	1.6 /10k2025	+107%	Within the margin of error	96%
High school diploma or higher	88.0%2015-2019	90.5%2020-2024	+2.6 points	Within the margin of error	64%
Home price to income ratio	1.7×2015-2019	1.6×2020-2024	−0.1×	Within the margin of error	93%
Income adjusted for local prices	$44,2152019	$62,8482024	+42%	Improved	90%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4292015-2019	0.4572020-2024	+0.028	Within the margin of error	16%
Median household income	$49,3772019	$62,1172024	+26%	Improved	55%
New business applications	5.0 /1k2020	8.1 /1k2025	+63%	Improved	72%
Pharmacies	1.5 /10k2020	0.8 /10k2025	−48%	Within the margin of error	8%
Poverty rate	13.8%2019	14.0%2024	+0.2 points	Within the margin of error	40%
Public libraries	0.8 /10k2019	0.8 /10k2024	+2.6%	Within the margin of error	72%
Rent as share of income	19.4%2015-2019	19.4%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	54%
Rent-burdened households	30.6%2015-2019	23.2%2020-2024	−7.4 points	Within the margin of error	85%
Restaurants and bars	12.1 /10k2020	7.8 /10k2025	−35%	Within the margin of error	5%
Students per teacher	13.9×2019	11.8×2024	−2.1×	Improved	88%
Traffic deaths	15.1 /100k2015-2019	23.0 /100k2020-2024	+53%	Within the margin of error	13%
Unemployment rate	9.4%2020	5.0%2025	−4.4 points	Improved	88%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	7.1%2019	7.3%2024	+0.2 points	Within the margin of error	21%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 3114 counties 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; Small Area Health Insurance Estimates; Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates; Public Libraries Survey; Common Core of Data; 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 3144 counties 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.

Counties like Clay County, Illinois five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Clay County, 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, Clay County, Illinois itself moved −3.1 points in standing on average over the same 30 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

13,052 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

5,311 households (±228)

Clay County, Illinois
Illinois share

Under $25k21%1,099
$25k–50k21%1,131
$50k–75k17%926

Homes

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

Owners and renters

5,311 households (±228)

Clay County, Illinois
Illinois share

Own79%4,211
Rent21%1,100

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

5,549 workers (±303)

Clay County, Illinois
Illinois share

Drive alone86%4,750
Carpool9.1%†505
Public transit0.3%†

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.

Clay County has 322 employer establishments, 249 for every 10,000 residents (1.00× the US rate of 248; 0.97× Illinois's), with 4,623 paid employees at an average annual pay of $54,905. The Census Bureau also counts 938 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 322; 938 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 249; US 248 · Illinois 255
Paid employees: 4,623
Average annual pay: $54,905; US $68,342

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

Religious organizations	20	15.4	2.78×More than typical	88	$19,557	—
Ambulatory health care services	18	13.9	0.67×Fewer than typical	72	$62,083	15
Restaurants and other eating places	16	12.4	0.67×Fewer than typical	215	$18,470	4
Automotive repair and maintenance	14	10.8	2.15×More than typical	48	$28,521	27
Specialty trade contractors	12	9.3	0.60×Fewer than typical	26	$55,192	86
Truck transportation	11	8.5	1.68×More than typical	175	$61,297	15
Banks and credit unions	10	7.7	2.39×More than typical	84	$49,083	5
Insurance agencies and brokerages	10	7.7	1.76×More than typical	19	$37,158	22
Offices of other health practitioners	10	7.7	1.27×More than typical	37	$39,649	4
Services to buildings and dwellings	9	7	1.03×Too few to compare	34	$26,941	87
Limited-service restaurants	8	6.2	0.77×Too few to compare	152	$19,138	—
Full-service restaurants	7	5.4	0.70×Too few to compare	60	$16,883	—

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 12,948 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 contract spending

In FY2026, federal agencies obligated -$107 on contracts performed in Clay County, Illinois: -$0.01 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: -$107; −101% vs FY2025
Per resident: -$0.01; 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

STEELCASE INC.-$1070.0%

Spending by fiscal year

900FY2017
14.4KFY2018
95.1KFY2020
56.5KFY2024
17.9KFY2025
-107.3FY2026

What was bought

Largest awards

NRCS - OFFICE FURNITURE - FLORA SERVICE CENTER, CLAY COUNTY$56.4K
STEELCASE INC.· Clay County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 17, 2024 – Mar 11, 2026· 12FPC124F0166

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.

Explore contracts in Clay County, Illinois

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 $96.4M in grants, loans, direct payments and insurance for Clay County, Illinois: $7,535 per resident (US $12,955).

Assistance · FY2026: $96.4M; −5.8% vs FY2025
Per resident: $7,535; US $12,955
Loan face value: $3.4M; lent or guaranteed
To individuals: 17%; counted, never named

Top programs

96.002 · Social Security Retirement Insurance$52.4M54%
10.988 · Supplemental Disaster Relief Program$9.3M9.6%

Public money & outcomes

Federal money per resident by fiscal year next to how the place changed, and, when its money jumped, how it compares with similar counties. A comparison, not cause and effect.

How Clay County, Illinois compares: the federal money it received per resident, and how jobs, income, housing and other outcomes moved, each next to the United States.

Money per resident

By federal fiscal year (October to September, named by the year it ends), obligations per resident. A year with no record counts as $0.

Clay County, Illinois
United States
Year its money jumped
partial year

Federal contractsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Clay County, Illinois and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Clay County, Illinois	United States
FY2017	$0.07	$1,436
FY2018	$1.09	$1,552
FY2019	$0	$1,654
FY2020	$7.16	$1,880
FY2021	$0	$1,810
FY2022	$0	$1,917
FY2023	$0	$2,079
FY2024	$4.40	$2,047
FY2025	$1.40	$2,165
FY2026	-$0.01 (partial year)	$1,911

Contracts and grantsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Clay County, Illinois and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Clay County, Illinois	United States
FY2021	$473	$5,748
FY2022	$1,299	$5,221
FY2023	$2,319	$5,364
FY2024	$1,217	$5,501
FY2025	$566	$5,732
FY2026

Transportation grantsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Clay County, Illinois and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Clay County, Illinois	United States
FY2021	$181	$298
FY2022	$790	$357
FY2023	$232	$301
FY2024	$926	$319
FY2025	$85.39	$360
FY2026

Housing assistanceUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Clay County, Illinois and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Clay County, Illinois	United States
FY2021	$92.37	$239
FY2022	$112	$185
FY2023	$108	$229
FY2024	$117	$229
FY2025	$104	$249
FY2026	$110

HHS grantsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Clay County, Illinois and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Clay County, Illinois	United States
FY2021	$11.29	$2,304
FY2022	$0	$2,197
FY2023	$0	$2,274
FY2024	$0	$2,267
FY2025	$0	$2,397
FY2026	$0

SBA lending volumeUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Clay County, Illinois and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Clay County, Illinois	United States
FY2021	$1,127	$1,186
FY2022	$142	$465
FY2023	-$10.30	$76.52
FY2024	$0	$120
FY2025	-$15.63	$148
FY2026	$0

Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)

How outcomes moved

Calendar years. Charts share the same years as the money above. Levels are shown as percent change since 2016; rates are shown as the rate itself.

Clay County, Illinois
United States
Years with money loaded
Year its money jumped

Job growthpercent

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Job growth, Clay County, Illinois and the United States, by year
Calendar years	Clay County, Illinois	United States
2014

When its money jumped

A county-year with at least 10,000 residents whose money per resident is at least twice its earlier average counts as a jump. Each is compared with up to five similar counties in the same region whose money did not jump.

Contracts and grants · FY2022

$1,299 per resident in FY2022, against an earlier average of $473 (2.7× that).

Compared with 15 similar counties

Sources: Regional Economic Accounts, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, Business Formation Statistics, Building Permits Survey, Cartographic Boundary Files, Gazetteer and metro delineations, Population Estimates Program, Small Area Health Insurance Estimates, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission), Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System), Zillow Home Value Index, Observed Rent Index and affordability. JSON · /api/v1/outcomes/places/17025

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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.

Clay County, 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

Cities and towns in Clay County

Places whose residents live mostly in Clay County, largest first.

Neighboring counties

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar counties

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
National Risk IndexFederal Emergency Management Agency · release v1.20.0
Health Professional Shortage AreasHealth Resources and Services Administration · release 2026-10-03
Public Libraries SurveyInstitute of Museum and Library Services · release FY2024
Common Core of DataNational Center for Education Statistics · release 2024
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
Zillow Home Value Index, Observed Rent Index and affordabilityZillow Research · release 2026-08

JSON · /api/v1/places/17025

Calendar years	Clay County, Illinois	United States
2014	−2.8%	−4.2%
2015	−2.6%	−1.3%
2016	0.0%	0.0%
2017	+1.6%	+3.3%
2018	+7.5%	+6.8%
2019	+6.6%	+10.5%
2020	+8.7%	+19.4%
2021	+18.4%	+26.1%
2022	+27.9%	+30.6%
2023	+36.1%	+35.0%
2024	+43.5%	+41.0%
2025	+46.8%	+46.8%

Calendar years	Clay County, Illinois	United States
2014	−3.6%	−5.5%
2015	−2.0%	−1.9%
2016	0.0%	0.0%
2017	+6.0%	+4.1%
2018	+11.0%	+8.9%
2019	+9.1%	+13.5%
2020	+21.2%	+20.8%
2021	+39.2%	+32.1%
2022	+39.9%	+35.4%
2023	+49.6%	+42.9%
2024	+53.1%	+49.5%

Calendar years	Clay County, Illinois	United States
2014	0.3/1k	3.3/1k
2015	0.4/1k	3.7/1k
2016	1.0/1k	3.7/1k
2017	0.7/1k	3.9/1k
2018	0.2/1k	4.1/1k
2019	0.6/1k	4.2/1k
2020	0.4/1k	4.4/1k
2021	0.4/1k	5.2/1k
2022	0.4/1k	5.0/1k
2023	0.5/1k	4.5/1k
2024	0.2/1k	4.3/1k
2025	0.2/1k	4.2/1k

Calendar years	Clay County, Illinois	United States
2014	+5.1%	−6.9%
2015	+0.2%	−3.2%
2016	0.0%	0.0%
2017	+3.6%	+4.7%
2018	+4.5%	+7.5%
2019	+13.6%	+14.0%
2020	+37.1%	+16.9%
2021	+17.4%	+21.0%
2022	+27.1%	+29.7%
2023	+26.1%	+34.9%
2024	+42.9%	+41.6%

Calendar years	Clay County, Illinois	United States
2014	−9.3% (Dec 2014)	−10.8% (Dec 2014)
2015	−3.8% (Dec 2015)	−5.2% (Dec 2015)
2016	0.0% (Dec 2016)	0.0% (Dec 2016)
2017	−2.0% (Dec 2017)	+6.4% (Dec 2017)
2018	−2.3% (Dec 2018)	+12.6% (Dec 2018)
2019	+6.1% (Dec 2019)	+18.1% (Dec 2019)
2020	+16.3% (Dec 2020)	+29.3% (Dec 2020)
2021	+19.3% (Dec 2021)	+49.8% (Dec 2021)
2022	+16.1% (Dec 2022)	+64.7% (Dec 2022)
2023	+23.4% (Dec 2023)	+69.0% (Dec 2023)
2024	+26.3% (Dec 2024)	+73.4% (Dec 2024)
2025	+31.4% (Dec 2025)	+73.7% (Dec 2025)

Calendar years	Clay County, Illinois	United States
2014	8.0%	6.2%
2015	7.0%	5.3%
2016	7.0%	4.9%
2017	5.5%	4.4%
2018	5.4%	3.9%
2019	4.6%	3.7%
2020	9.4%	8.1%
2021	5.9%	5.4%
2022	5.0%	3.7%
2023	5.5%	3.6%
2024	5.1%	4.0%
2025	5.0%	4.3%

Calendar years	Clay County, Illinois	United States
2014	13.6%	15.5%
2015	14.5%	14.7%
2016	16.0%	14.0%
2017	13.2%	13.4%
2018	14.3%	13.1%
2019	13.8%	12.3%
2020	13.3%	11.9%
2021	14.1%	12.8%
2022	13.5%	12.6%
2023	14.9%	12.5%
2024	14.0%	12.1%

Calendar years	Clay County, Illinois	United States
2014	8.8%	13.5%
2015	6.2%	10.9%
2016	5.8%	10.0%
2017	6.2%	10.2%
2018	6.5%	10.4%
2019	7.1%	10.8%
2020	7.5%	10.4%
2021	6.6%	10.2%
2022	5.9%	9.5%
2023	6.5%	9.5%
2024	7.3%	9.8%

Calendar years	Clay County, Illinois	United States
2014	4.3/1k	8.5/1k
2015	4.4/1k	8.7/1k
2016	4.0/1k	9.1/1k
2017	3.9/1k	9.8/1k
2018	5.4/1k	10.7/1k
2019	6.3/1k	10.6/1k
2020	5.0/1k	13.1/1k
2021	6.8/1k	16.2/1k
2022	7.1/1k	15.1/1k
2023	6.1/1k	16.2/1k
2024	7.0/1k	15.4/1k
2025	8.1/1k	16.6/1k

Year	Clay County, Illinois	Comparison counties (average)	Range of comparison counties
Year −3	+0.8 points	+1.4 points	+0.1 points to +3.5 points
Year −2	−4.7 points	−1.8 points	−3.5 points to +2.1 points
Year −1	0.0 points	0.0 points	0.0 points to 0.0 points
Year 0	+1.7 points	+4.3 points	−0.1 points to +7.8 points
Year +1	+4.3 points	+3.5 points	−0.5 points to +7.1 points
Year +2	+3.9 points	+2.8 points	−0.9 points to +6.0 points

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