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Elmwood Park village, Illinois: commercial real estate data.
Elmwood Park village is a Census village of 23,868 people across 1.91 square miles of land, in Cook County. Median household income is $91,955, 65.2 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 28 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $7.1 m.
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Elmwood Park
What Elmwood Park is
- Census place typevillage
- Land area1.91 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land12,507
- County holding the largest share of its areaCook County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Elmwood Park
How many people live in Elmwood Park
- Population23,868
- Median age41.5
- Population under 184,849
- Share under 1820.3 percent
- Population 65 and over4,066
- Share 65 and over17.0 percent
- Households9,285
- Family households5,760
- Share of households that are families62.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Elmwood Park
Income and work in Elmwood Park
- Median household income$91,955
- Per capita income$42,786
- Civilian labor force12,732
- Employed11,981
- Unemployed751 plus or minus 230
- Unemployment rate5.9 percent plus or minus 1.8
- Adults 25 and over17,292
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher88.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher32.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree13.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Elmwood Park
Housing in Elmwood Park
- Housing units9,882
- Occupied units9,285
- Vacant units597 plus or minus 274
- Vacancy rate6.0 percent plus or minus 2.8
- Owner occupied6,052
- Renter occupied3,233
- Ownership rate65.2 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$339,300
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,334
- Annual rent as a share of median income17.4 percent
- Single family units5,257
- Share single family53.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more4,614
- Share in buildings of two or more46.7 percent
- Mobile homes11 plus or minus 19
- Median year structure built1955
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Elmwood Park
How Elmwood Park gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute10,236
- Commuting under 15 minutes1,588 plus or minus 342
- Share commuting under 15 minutes15.5 percent plus or minus 3.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more5,904
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more57.7 percent
- Drove alone70.8 percent
- Carpooled7.0 percent plus or minus 2.1
- Public transport5.0 percent plus or minus 1.7
- Walked1.5 percent plus or minus 1.1
- Worked from home13.7 percent plus or minus 3.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Elmwood Park
SBA 7(a) lending to Elmwood Park borrowers
- Approvals28
- Gross approval$7,135,900
- Average approval$254,854
- Median approval$125,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$860,000
- Largest approval$1,843,300
- Jobs supported191
- Jobs per approval6.8
- Loans with a final outcome4
- Paid in full4
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more17.9 percent
- Share to franchises10.7 percent
- Distinct lenders9
- Distinct industries by NAICS15
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 4 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Elmwood Park
SBA 504 lending to Elmwood Park borrowers
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$1,416,000
- Average approval$472,000
- Median approval$235,000
- Largest approval$970,000
- Jobs supported26
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs2
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Elmwood Park
Flood programme status in Elmwood Park
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number170089
- Currently effective map date08/19/08
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Cook County, not Elmwood Park
Cook County context, not Elmwood Park figures
These are Cook County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Elmwood Park measurements.
- Establishments in Cook County134,513
- Employment at those establishments, Cook County2,492,328
- Covered employment, Cook County2,565,567
- Average annual pay, Cook County$86,931
- Average weekly wage, Cook County$1,672
- Housing units permitted, Cook County6,507
- Of those, single family, Cook County1,142
- County product, 2024, Cook County$546,440,623,000
- County product change over the prior year, Cook County4.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Cook County$91,691
Every figure in this section is published for Cook County as a whole and is not a measurement of Elmwood Park. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Elmwood Park questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Elmwood Park, Illinois?
23,868, in 9,285 households. Elmwood Park village covers 1.91 square miles of land, which is 12,507 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Elmwood Park in?
Cook County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Elmwood Park?
$91,955. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $339,300. Median gross rent is $1,334 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Elmwood Park businesses?
28 7(a) approvals totalling $7.1 m, across 9 lenders, median approval $125,000, plus 3 504 approvals worth $1.4 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Elmwood Park, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Elmwood Park borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Elmwood Park. only 4 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Is Elmwood Park in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Elmwood Park appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 170089, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Elmwood Park figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Cook County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Elmwood Park.
Is zoning published for Elmwood Park?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.