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Blue Mound village, Illinois: commercial real estate data.
Blue Mound village is a Census village of 882 people across 0.59 square miles of land, in Macon County. Median household income is $70,329, 80.9 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 2 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $252,400.
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Blue Mound
What Blue Mound is
- Census place typevillage
- Land area0.59 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,507 plus or minus 302
- County holding the largest share of its areaMacon 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.
Blue Mound
How many people live in Blue Mound
- Population882 plus or minus 177
- Median age41.3 plus or minus 9.2
- Population under 18210 plus or minus 62
- Share under 1823.8 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Population 65 and over196 plus or minus 60
- Share 65 and over22.2 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Households429 plus or minus 86
- Family households274 plus or minus 66
- Share of households that are families63.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Blue Mound
- Median household income$70,329
- Per capita income$36,545
- Civilian labor force414 plus or minus 106
- Employed393 plus or minus 104
- Unemployed21 plus or minus 17
- Unemployment rate5.1 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Adults 25 and over634
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher94.6 percent plus or minus 25.7
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher17.2 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree8.2 percent plus or minus 4.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Blue Mound
- Housing units516
- Occupied units429 plus or minus 86
- Vacant units87 plus or minus 45
- Vacancy rate16.9 percent plus or minus 8.2
- Owner occupied347 plus or minus 79
- Renter occupied82 plus or minus 37
- Ownership rate80.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$123,100
- Median gross rent, monthly$950 plus or minus $283
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.2 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Single family units447 plus or minus 94
- Share single family86.6 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more37 plus or minus 26
- Share in buildings of two or more7.2 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Mobile homes32 plus or minus 20
- Median year structure built1959
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Blue Mound gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute364 plus or minus 87
- Commuting under 15 minutes56 plus or minus 33
- Share commuting under 15 minutes15.4 percent plus or minus 8.4
- Commuting 30 minutes or more193 plus or minus 67
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more53.0 percent plus or minus 13.4
- Drove alone84.7 percent plus or minus 30.9
- Carpooled2.6 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked3.6 percent plus or minus 2.9
- Worked from home6.9 percent plus or minus 9.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Blue Mound
SBA loans in Blue Mound (7(a))
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$252,400
- Average approval$126,200
- Median approval$173,200
- Ninetieth percentile approval$173,200
- Largest approval$173,200
- Jobs supported19
- Jobs per approval9.5
- 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 lenders2
- Distinct industries by NAICS2
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.
Blue Mound
Flood risk in Blue Mound
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number170946
- Currently effective map date06/16/11(M)
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.
Macon County, not Blue Mound
Macon County context, not Blue Mound figures
These are Macon County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Blue Mound measurements.
- Establishments in Macon County2,241
- Employment at those establishments, Macon County42,511
- Covered employment, Macon County45,051
- Average annual pay, Macon County$67,788
- Average weekly wage, Macon County$1,304
- Housing units permitted, Macon County57
- Of those, single family, Macon County39
- County product, 2024, Macon County$9,053,686,000
- County product change over the prior year, Macon County2.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Macon County$49,647
Every figure in this section is published for Macon County as a whole and is not a measurement of Blue Mound. 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
Blue Mound questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Blue Mound, Illinois?
882, in 429 households. Blue Mound village covers 0.59 square miles of land, which is 1,507 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Blue Mound in?
Macon 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 Blue Mound?
$70,329. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $123,100. Median gross rent is $950 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Blue Mound businesses?
2 7(a) approvals totalling $252,400, across 2 lenders, median approval $173,200. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Blue Mound, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Blue Mound borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Blue Mound. 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 Blue Mound in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Blue Mound appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 170946, 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 Blue Mound figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Macon 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 Blue Mound.
Is zoning published for Blue Mound?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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