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Peru city, Illinois: commercial real estate data.
Peru city is a Census city of 9,775 people across 10.32 square miles of land, lying across LaSalle County and Bureau County. Median household income is $74,808, 75.0 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 6 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $8.8 m.
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Peru
What Peru is
- Census place typecity
- Land area10.32 sq mi
- Water area0.13 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land948
- County holding the largest share of its areaLaSalle County, 92.7 percent
- Counties this place lies inLaSalle County 92.7 percent, Bureau County 7.3 percent
Peru city crosses a county line. The split above is measured from the Census boundary of the place against the county boundaries, by area, so it says where the ground is and not where the town hall is.
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Peru
How many people live in Peru
- Population9,775
- Median age45.7
- Population under 181,916
- Share under 1819.6 percent
- Population 65 and over2,340
- Share 65 and over23.9 percent
- Households4,480
- Family households2,795
- Share of households that are families62.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Peru
Income and work in Peru
- Median household income$74,808
- Per capita income$42,211
- Civilian labor force5,156
- Employed5,028
- Unemployed128 plus or minus 73
- Unemployment rate2.5 percent plus or minus 1.4
- Adults 25 and over7,113
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher94.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher23.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree8.5 percent plus or minus 2.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Peru
Housing in Peru
- Housing units4,853
- Occupied units4,480
- Vacant units373 plus or minus 142
- Vacancy rate7.7 percent plus or minus 2.9
- Owner occupied3,358
- Renter occupied1,122 plus or minus 231
- Ownership rate75.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$154,300
- Median gross rent, monthly$921
- Annual rent as a share of median income14.8 percent
- Single family units4,210
- Share single family86.8 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more606 plus or minus 194
- Share in buildings of two or more12.5 percent plus or minus 4.0
- Mobile homes37 plus or minus 35
- Median year structure built1958
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Peru
How Peru gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute4,735
- Commuting under 15 minutes2,828
- Share commuting under 15 minutes59.7 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more1,043 plus or minus 260
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more22.0 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Drove alone80.1 percent
- Carpooled11.0 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Public transport0.7 percent plus or minus 1.0
- Walked0.7 percent plus or minus 0.8
- Worked from home5.4 percent plus or minus 1.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Peru
SBA 7(a) lending to Peru borrowers
- Approvals6
- Gross approval$8,829,500
- Average approval$1,471,583
- Median approval$500,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$4,500,000
- Largest approval$4,500,000
- Jobs supported38
- Jobs per approval6.3
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more16.7 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders5
- Distinct industries by NAICS6
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 1 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.
Peru
SBA 504 lending to Peru borrowers
- Approvals5
- Gross approval$2,191,000
- Average approval$438,200
- Median approval$291,000
- Largest approval$981,000
- Jobs supported9
- Loans with a final outcome3
- 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.
Peru
Flood programme status in Peru
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number170406
- Currently effective map date07/18/11
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.
LaSalle County, not Peru
LaSalle County context, not Peru figures
These are LaSalle County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Peru measurements.
- Establishments in LaSalle County2,523
- Employment at those establishments, LaSalle County33,721
- Covered employment, LaSalle County39,242
- Average annual pay, LaSalle County$58,537
- Average weekly wage, LaSalle County$1,126
- Housing units permitted, LaSalle County77
- Of those, single family, LaSalle County77
- County product, 2024, LaSalle County$7,670,127,000
- County product change over the prior year, LaSalle County-0.2 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, LaSalle County$56,296
Every figure in this section is published for LaSalle County as a whole and is not a measurement of Peru. 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
Peru questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Peru, Illinois?
9,775, in 4,480 households. Peru city covers 10.32 square miles of land, which is 948 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Peru in?
Peru lies in more than one. By area it is 92.7 percent in LaSalle County, 7.3 percent in Bureau County. This page sits under LaSalle County because that county holds the largest share. The split is measured from the Census boundary of the place against the county boundaries.
What is the median household income in Peru?
$74,808. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $154,300. Median gross rent is $921 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Peru businesses?
6 7(a) approvals totalling $8.8 m, across 5 lenders, median approval $500,000, plus 5 504 approvals worth $2.2 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Peru, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Peru borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Peru. only 1 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 Peru in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Peru appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 170406, 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 Peru figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for LaSalle 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 Peru.
Is zoning published for Peru?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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