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Alden CDP, Illinois: commercial real estate data.
Alden CDP is a Census CDP of 48 people across 0.13 square miles of land, in McHenry County. 77.4 percent of occupied homes are owned.
47 sourced place values · tier FULL · 6 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
This is a small place, and the figures below carry wide margins.
The American Community Survey reaches Alden through a sample, not a count, and in a place this size that sample is thin. The population estimate here is 48 with a margin of error of plus or minus 34, which is 70.8 percent of the estimate itself. Every figure whose margin reaches 20 percent is printed with that margin beside it, so you can see the width of each one rather than having to assume it.
Nothing has been removed or adjusted. These are the published federal estimates, shown with the uncertainty the Census publishes alongside them.
Alden
What Alden is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area0.13 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land382 plus or minus 271
- County holding the largest share of its areaMcHenry 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.
Alden
How many people live in Alden
- Population48 plus or minus 34
- Median age67.9
- Population under 180
- Share under 180.0 percent
- Population 65 and over32 plus or minus 23
- Share 65 and over66.7 percent
- Households31 plus or minus 21
- Family households18 plus or minus 18
- Share of households that are families58.1 percent plus or minus 42.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Alden
Income and work in Alden
- Per capita income$43,929 plus or minus $13,525
- Civilian labor force25 plus or minus 35
- Employed25 plus or minus 35
- Unemployed0
- Unemployment rate0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over48 plus or minus 34
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher100.0 percent plus or minus 96.1
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher16.7 percent plus or minus 30.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Alden
Housing in Alden
- Housing units31 plus or minus 21
- Occupied units31 plus or minus 21
- Vacant units0
- Vacancy rate0.0 percent
- Owner occupied24 plus or minus 20
- Renter occupied7 plus or minus 11
- Ownership rate77.4 percent plus or minus 37.6
- Median owner-occupied home value$237,500 plus or minus $60,535
- Single family units31 plus or minus 25
- Share single family100.0 percent plus or minus 41.9
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1938
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Alden
How Alden gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute25 plus or minus 35
- Commuting under 15 minutes6 plus or minus 16
- Share commuting under 15 minutes24.0 percent plus or minus 56.3
- Commuting 30 minutes or more19 plus or minus 27
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more76.0 percent plus or minus 25.7
- Drove alone76.0 percent plus or minus 84.7
- Carpooled0.0 percent
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked24.0 percent plus or minus 21.7
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
McHenry County, not Alden
McHenry County context, not Alden figures
These are McHenry County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Alden measurements.
- Establishments in McHenry County8,140
- Employment at those establishments, McHenry County87,684
- Covered employment, McHenry County96,922
- Average annual pay, McHenry County$55,107
- Average weekly wage, McHenry County$1,060
- Housing units permitted, McHenry County1,565
- Of those, single family, McHenry County887
- County product, 2024, McHenry County$15,982,773,000
- County product change over the prior year, McHenry County4.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, McHenry County$80,258
Every figure in this section is published for McHenry County as a whole and is not a measurement of Alden. 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.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- The American Community Survey does not publish a median household income for this place, which happens where the sample is too small to support one.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- 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
Alden questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Alden, Illinois?
48, in 31 households. Alden CDP covers 0.13 square miles of land, which is 382 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Alden in?
McHenry County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
Are the county figures on this page Alden figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for McHenry 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 Alden.
Is zoning published for Alden?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.