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Hickory Hills city, Illinois: commercial real estate data.
Hickory Hills city is a Census city of 14,526 people across 2.84 square miles of land, in Cook County. Median household income is $77,262, 71.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 24 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $3.5 m.
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Hickory Hills
What Hickory Hills is
- Census place typecity
- Land area2.84 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land5,107
- 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.
Hickory Hills
How many people live in Hickory Hills
- Population14,526
- Median age38.8
- Population under 183,629
- Share under 1825.0 percent
- Population 65 and over2,056
- Share 65 and over14.2 percent
- Households5,630
- Family households3,657
- Share of households that are families65.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hickory Hills
Income and work in Hickory Hills
- Median household income$77,262
- Per capita income$37,216
- Civilian labor force7,575
- Employed7,115
- Unemployed460 plus or minus 199
- Unemployment rate6.1 percent plus or minus 2.6
- Adults 25 and over9,657
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher88.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher24.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree11.1 percent plus or minus 3.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hickory Hills
Housing in Hickory Hills
- Housing units5,748
- Occupied units5,630
- Vacant units118 plus or minus 86
- Vacancy rate2.1 percent plus or minus 1.5
- Owner occupied4,005
- Renter occupied1,625
- Ownership rate71.1 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$288,000
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,145
- Annual rent as a share of median income17.8 percent
- Single family units3,729
- Share single family64.9 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more1,942 plus or minus 401
- Share in buildings of two or more33.8 percent
- Mobile homes77 plus or minus 103
- Median year structure built1970
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hickory Hills
How Hickory Hills gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute6,175
- Commuting under 15 minutes1,331 plus or minus 405
- Share commuting under 15 minutes21.6 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more2,613
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more42.3 percent
- Drove alone71.0 percent
- Carpooled12.3 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Public transport1.9 percent plus or minus 1.4
- Walked2.4 percent plus or minus 2.0
- Worked from home11.1 percent plus or minus 3.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hickory Hills
SBA loans in Hickory Hills (7(a))
- Approvals24
- Gross approval$3,470,300
- Average approval$144,596
- Median approval$61,500
- Ninetieth percentile approval$589,600
- Largest approval$589,600
- Jobs supported111
- Jobs per approval4.6
- Loans with a final outcome7
- Paid in full4
- Charged off3
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises12.5 percent
- Distinct lenders7
- Distinct industries by NAICS9
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 7 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.
Hickory Hills
SBA loans in Hickory Hills (504)
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$1,574,000
- Average approval$524,667
- Median approval$414,000
- Largest approval$1,042,000
- Jobs supported74
- Loans with a final outcome1
- 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.
Hickory Hills
Flood risk in Hickory Hills
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number170103
- 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 Hickory Hills
Cook County context, not Hickory Hills 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 Hickory Hills 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 Hickory Hills. 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
Hickory Hills questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Hickory Hills, Illinois?
14,526, in 5,630 households. Hickory Hills city covers 2.84 square miles of land, which is 5,107 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Hickory Hills 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 Hickory Hills?
$77,262. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $288,000. Median gross rent is $1,145 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Hickory Hills businesses?
24 7(a) approvals totalling $3.5 m, across 7 lenders, median approval $61,500, plus 3 504 approvals worth $1.6 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Hickory Hills, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Hickory Hills borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Hickory Hills. only 7 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 Hickory Hills in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Hickory Hills appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 170103, 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 Hickory Hills 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 Hickory Hills.
Is zoning published for Hickory Hills?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.