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Rolling Meadows city, Illinois: commercial real estate data.
Rolling Meadows city is a Census city of 24,027 people across 5.62 square miles of land, in Cook County. Median household income is $98,514, 71.8 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 73 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $24.5 m.
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Rolling Meadows
What Rolling Meadows is
- Census place typecity
- Land area5.62 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land4,277
- 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.
Rolling Meadows
How many people live in Rolling Meadows
- Population24,027
- Median age39.5
- Population under 185,370
- Share under 1822.3 percent
- Population 65 and over3,864
- Share 65 and over16.1 percent
- Households9,336
- Family households6,066
- Share of households that are families65.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Rolling Meadows
Income and work in Rolling Meadows
- Median household income$98,514
- Per capita income$46,120
- Civilian labor force13,530
- Employed13,005
- Unemployed525 plus or minus 159
- Unemployment rate3.9 percent plus or minus 1.2
- Adults 25 and over16,981
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher89.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher43.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree15.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Rolling Meadows
- Housing units9,881
- Occupied units9,336
- Vacant units545 plus or minus 244
- Vacancy rate5.5 percent plus or minus 2.5
- Owner occupied6,704
- Renter occupied2,632
- Ownership rate71.8 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$326,200
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,607
- Annual rent as a share of median income19.6 percent
- Single family units6,091
- Share single family61.6 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more3,740
- Share in buildings of two or more37.9 percent
- Mobile homes50 plus or minus 65
- Median year structure built1973
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Rolling Meadows gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute10,793
- Commuting under 15 minutes2,940
- Share commuting under 15 minutes27.2 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more3,787
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more35.1 percent
- Drove alone71.5 percent
- Carpooled8.3 percent plus or minus 2.4
- Public transport1.9 percent plus or minus 0.7
- Walked2.0 percent plus or minus 1.2
- Worked from home14.8 percent plus or minus 3.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Rolling Meadows
SBA loans in Rolling Meadows (7(a))
- Approvals73
- Gross approval$24,523,300
- Average approval$335,936
- Median approval$169,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$600,000
- Largest approval$5,000,000
- Jobs supported690
- Jobs per approval9.5
- Loans with a final outcome19
- Paid in full13
- Charged off6
- Charge-off rate over resolved loans31.6 percent
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more6.8 percent
- Share to franchises5.5 percent
- Distinct lenders25
- Distinct industries by NAICS43
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Rolling Meadows
SBA loans in Rolling Meadows (504)
- Approvals11
- Gross approval$10,330,000
- Average approval$939,091
- Median approval$783,000
- Largest approval$2,631,000
- Jobs supported150
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs3
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Rolling Meadows
Flood risk in Rolling Meadows
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number170155
- 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 Rolling Meadows
Cook County context, not Rolling Meadows 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 Rolling Meadows 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 Rolling Meadows. 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
Rolling Meadows questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Rolling Meadows, Illinois?
24,027, in 9,336 households. Rolling Meadows city covers 5.62 square miles of land, which is 4,277 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Rolling Meadows 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 Rolling Meadows?
$98,514. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $326,200. Median gross rent is $1,607 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Rolling Meadows businesses?
73 7(a) approvals totalling $24.5 m, across 25 lenders, median approval $169,000, plus 11 504 approvals worth $10.3 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Rolling Meadows, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Rolling Meadows borrowers get paid back?
Of the 19 loans that have reached a final outcome, 13 were paid in full and 6 charged off, a charge off rate of 31.6 percent. Loans still running are excluded because they have not yet succeeded or failed.
Is Rolling Meadows in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Rolling Meadows appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 170155, 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 Rolling Meadows 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 Rolling Meadows.
Is zoning published for Rolling Meadows?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.