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Ford Heights village, Illinois: commercial real estate data.
Ford Heights village is a Census village of 1,331 people across 2.04 square miles of land, in Cook County. Median household income is $36,053, 51.2 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $184,000.
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Ford Heights
What Ford Heights is
- Census place typevillage
- Land area2.04 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land654 plus or minus 222
- 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.
Ford Heights
How many people live in Ford Heights
- Population1,331 plus or minus 452
- Median age52.4 plus or minus 12.6
- Population under 18180 plus or minus 105
- Share under 1813.5 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Population 65 and over326 plus or minus 107
- Share 65 and over24.5 percent plus or minus 11.6
- Households562 plus or minus 119
- Family households317 plus or minus 103
- Share of households that are families56.4 percent plus or minus 13.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ford Heights
Income and work in Ford Heights
- Median household income$36,053 plus or minus $9,696
- Per capita income$19,071 plus or minus $4,462
- Civilian labor force498 plus or minus 164
- Employed429 plus or minus 145
- Unemployed69 plus or minus 50
- Unemployment rate13.9 percent plus or minus 8.9
- Adults 25 and over1,097 plus or minus 400
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher85.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher9.6 percent plus or minus 6.6
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.3 percent plus or minus 2.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ford Heights
Housing in Ford Heights
- Housing units816
- Occupied units562 plus or minus 119
- Vacant units254 plus or minus 88
- Vacancy rate31.1 percent plus or minus 9.4
- Owner occupied288 plus or minus 100
- Renter occupied274 plus or minus 95
- Ownership rate51.2 percent plus or minus 14.1
- Median owner-occupied home value$66,300 plus or minus $25,839
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,056
- Annual rent as a share of median income35.1 percent plus or minus 10.0
- Single family units719 plus or minus 144
- Share single family88.1 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more97 plus or minus 56
- Share in buildings of two or more11.9 percent plus or minus 6.5
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1965
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ford Heights
How Ford Heights gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute420 plus or minus 144
- Commuting under 15 minutes35 plus or minus 32
- Share commuting under 15 minutes8.3 percent plus or minus 7.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more186 plus or minus 115
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more44.3 percent plus or minus 22.8
- Drove alone74.0 percent
- Carpooled14.3 percent plus or minus 19.4
- Public transport11.7 percent plus or minus 14.7
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ford Heights
SBA 7(a) lending to Ford Heights borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$184,000
- Average approval$184,000
- Median approval$184,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$184,000
- Largest approval$184,000
- Jobs supported6
- Jobs per approval6.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 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.
Ford Heights
Flood programme status in Ford Heights
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number170084
- 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 Ford Heights
Cook County context, not Ford Heights 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 Ford Heights 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 Ford Heights. 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
Ford Heights questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Ford Heights, Illinois?
1,331, in 562 households. Ford Heights village covers 2.04 square miles of land, which is 654 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Ford Heights 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 Ford Heights?
$36,053. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $66,300. Median gross rent is $1,056 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Ford Heights businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $184,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $184,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Ford Heights, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Ford Heights borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Ford Heights. only 0 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 Ford Heights in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Ford Heights appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 170084, 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 Ford Heights 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 Ford Heights.
Is zoning published for Ford Heights?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.