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Knox County, IL

People
Population49,046B01003
Population, 2020 census49,967P1
Median age42.6B01002
Under 1820.2%B01001
65 and over22.2%B01001
Households20,972B11001
Foreign born3.2%B05002
Money
Median household income$57,030B19013
Median family income$82,396B19113
Per capita income$31,878B19301
Poverty rate14.6%B17001
Unemployment rate5.1%B23025
Civilian labor force22,264B23025
Mean commute (minutes)20.4B08013
Education
Bachelor's degree or higher21.0%B15003
Housing
Housing units23,758B25001
Owner-occupied70.8%B25003
Renters29.2%B25003
Median home value$111,900B25077
Median gross rent$788B25064
Race and ethnicity
White, not Hispanic79.9%B03002
Black8.0%B03002
Hispanic or Latino6.4%B03002
Asian1.3%B03002
American Indian and Alaska Native0.0%B03002

Figures from the 2020-2024 American Community Survey five-year estimates (table codes link to the same table for this area at data.census.gov) and the 2020 census (P1), via IPUMS NHGIS. Estimates for small areas carry wide margins of error; a tract's figures describe its residents, not any one organization.

Against the state: median household income here is 68% of Illinois's ($83,390); poverty 14.6% against 11.8%; 0.4% of the state's people live here.

Census tracts

Census Tract 1: 2,713Census Tract 2: 2,745Census Tract 3: 4,217Census Tract 4: 4,349Census Tract 5: 5,203Census Tract 6: 3,402Census Tract 7: 1,868Census Tract 8: 2,516Census Tract 9: 1,996Census Tract 10: 3,663Census Tract 11: 2,562Census Tract 12: 1,624Census Tract 13: 3,843Census Tract 14: 1,677Census Tract 15: 3,907Census Tract 16: 2,761GalesburgAbingdonKnoxvilleOak RunOneidaEast GalesburgWatagaWilliamsfieldYates CityAltonaHendersonVictoriaZIP 61401: 353 nonprofits, $703,213,648ZIP 61402: 60 nonprofits, $3,898,462ZIP 61410: 35 nonprofits, $296,788ZIP 61448: 35 nonprofits, $1,922,369ZIP 61489: 12 nonprofits, $301,213ZIP 61467: 11 nonprofits, $70,194ZIP 61572: 10 nonprofits, $233ZIP 61414: 10 nonprofits, $429,963ZIP 61488: 9 nonprofits, $250,598ZIP 61485: 5 nonprofits, $148,619ZIP 61428: 4 nonprofits, $60,734ZIP 61430: 4 nonprofits, $693,342ZIP 61472: 4 nonprofitsZIP 61436: 3 nonprofitsZIP 61474: 2 nonprofitsZIP 61458: 2 nonprofitsPopulation (ACS 2020-2024)up to 1,9961,996 to 2,7132,713 to 3,4023,402 to 3,907over 3,907nonprofits (circle size: how many)

Click an area for its page. Circles are FURP records at their ZIP code's center point, sized by how many. Download this map's areas with their census figures: CSV (center points) · GeoJSON (outlines), ready for Datawrapper, Mapshaper or Google My Maps. Outlines: Census TIGER/Line 2026, simplified.

Places in the county

FURP records in Knox County, IL

RecordsHow manyTotalBiggest
Nonprofits559$711,286,163 revenue (latest return)UNLIMITED DEVELOPMENT INC ($135,871,590)
Nonprofit contractors29$234,057,269 paid by nonprofitsRFMS INC ($113,766,093)
Colleges and schools22,689 enrollmentCarl Sandburg College (1,688)
Form D issuers2$19,075,975 amount soldINTELLIHOT INC. ($19,075,975)
Political committees7REPUBLICFREEDOM
Form 5500 plan sponsors98127 plansKNOX COLLEGE (7)
Open Payments recipients144$360,536 industry paymentsPETER H. KEHOE ($166,925)
Patent and trademark owners56266 patents and marksIntellihot, Inc. (114)
Federal award recipients2,634$402,235,637 federal awardsKNOX COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY ($82,584,997)
State business registrations124LEARNING CONNECTIONS OF BARTONVI

Cross-reference: 559 nonprofits for 49,046 residents is 114.0 per 10,000 people; their latest-year revenue of $711,286,163 is $14,502 per resident, 59.5% of all household income here (households at the median income).

Highest-paid people on nonprofit returns here

#NameTitleOrganizationPayYearTimes the median household income
1DR C ANDREW MCGADNEYPRESIDENT & EX OFFCIO TRUSTEEKNOX COLLEGE$624,278202410.9x
2ROBERT B GILSTRAPVICE PRESIDENT/CFO (UNTIL 08/23)NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE EXCHANGE OF INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES I$484,16620238.5x
3DR TERESA L AMOTT END 6302021PRESIDENT AND EX OFFICIO TRUSTEEKNOX COLLEGE$345,79220206.1x
4DR TERESA L AMOTTPRESIDENT AND EX OFFICIO TRUSTEEKNOX COLLEGE$341,79920196.0x
5GARY C SMITHPRESIDENT/CEONATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE EXCHANGE OF INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES I$317,78020245.6x
6HEATHER BUMPSVP FOR STRATEGIC INITIATESKNOX COLLEGE$268,25020244.7x
7JOSHUA GIBBCHIEF EXEC OCOTTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION$246,07120254.3x
8MONICA KEITHVP FOR ADVANCEMENTKNOX COLLEGE$241,62520244.2x
9DR C ANDREW MCGADNEY B 721PRESIDENT AND EX OFFICIO TRUSTEEKNOX COLLEGE$240,55220214.2x
10ALEC GUROFFVP FINANCE AND CFO, TREASURERKNOX COLLEGE$240,26720244.2x

Each person's latest year on a 990 at a nonprofit placed here (reported pay including related organizations and other compensation); people paid under $50,000 are left out. The median household income here is $57,030.

Nonprofits: biggest by revenue (latest return)

Nonprofit contractors: biggest by paid by nonprofits

Colleges and schools: biggest by enrollment

Form D issuers: biggest by amount sold

Political committees

Form 5500 plan sponsors: biggest by plans

Open Payments recipients: biggest by industry payments

Patent and trademark owners: biggest by patents and marks

Federal award recipients: biggest by federal awards

All 16 tracts

Every tract with its figures is in the CSV and GeoJSON downloads.

TractPopulationMedian household incomePoverty rateMedian age
Census Tract 55,203$60,93810.1%42.7
Census Tract 44,349$52,35212.2%55.0
Census Tract 34,217$59,0107.3%45.6
Census Tract 153,907$62,52611.0%38.3
Census Tract 133,843$74,11811.1%43.8
Census Tract 103,663$43,81620.8%45.2
Census Tract 63,402$72,86918.0%40.2
Census Tract 162,761$71,2505.8%46.7
Census Tract 22,745$78,3706.5%51.6
Census Tract 12,713$71,5156.5%43.8
Census Tract 112,562$46,61837.7%32.7
Census Tract 82,516$18,26436.1%22.9
Census Tract 91,996$26,81628.8%37.4
Census Tract 71,868$39,92228.4%36.1
Census Tract 141,677$90,5857.9%55.0
Census Tract 121,624$79,3758.3%37.8

Census figures are from IPUMS NHGIS: the American Community Survey 2020-2024 five-year estimates (ACS table codes shown with each figure) and the 2020 decennial census (Demographic and Housing Characteristics), by state, county, place and census tract. FURP records are placed by ZIP code (the Census Bureau's 2020 ZCTA-to-county and ZCTA-to-tract relationship files: the county or tract holding most of the ZIP's land) and by city name (Census place names, normalized), so a record's tract is its ZIP's main tract, not its street's. Cite: Jonathan Schroeder, David Van Riper, Steven Manson, Grace Cooper, Zachary Krause, Tracy Kugler, Tsu Zhu, and Steven Ruggles. IPUMS National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 21.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS. 2026. http://doi.org/10.18128/D050.V21.0