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Ridgefield CDP, Illinois: commercial real estate data.
Ridgefield CDP is a Census CDP of 221 people across 0.52 square miles of land, in McHenry County. 100.0 percent of occupied homes are owned.
38 sourced place values · tier SHORT · 5 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 Ridgefield through a sample, not a count, and in a place this size that sample is thin. The population estimate here is 221 with a margin of error of plus or minus 228, which is 103.2 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. Because the margin here exceeds the estimate, this page shows its strongest sections only rather than a full profile.
Nothing has been removed or adjusted. These are the published federal estimates, shown with the uncertainty the Census publishes alongside them.
Ridgefield
What Ridgefield is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area0.52 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land423 plus or minus 436
- 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.
Ridgefield
How many people live in Ridgefield
- Population221 plus or minus 228
- Median age45.5 plus or minus 15.5
- Population under 180
- Share under 180.0 percent
- Population 65 and over43 plus or minus 53
- Share 65 and over19.5 percent plus or minus 13.0
- Households87 plus or minus 65
- Family households44 plus or minus 52
- Share of households that are families50.6 percent plus or minus 46.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ridgefield
Housing in Ridgefield
- Housing units87 plus or minus 65
- Occupied units87 plus or minus 65
- Vacant units0
- Vacancy rate0.0 percent
- Owner occupied87 plus or minus 65
- Renter occupied0
- Ownership rate100.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$254,200 plus or minus $196,167
- Single family units87 plus or minus 66
- Share single family100.0 percent
- 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.
Ridgefield
How Ridgefield gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute99 plus or minus 109
- Commuting under 15 minutes0
- Share commuting under 15 minutes0.0 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more57 plus or minus 65
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more57.6 percent plus or minus 17.5
- Drove alone44.5 percent plus or minus 67.6
- Carpooled0.0 percent
- Public transport27.7 percent plus or minus 25.1
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home27.7 percent plus or minus 25.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
McHenry County, not Ridgefield
McHenry County context, not Ridgefield 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 Ridgefield 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 Ridgefield. 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
Ridgefield questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Ridgefield, Illinois?
221, in 87 households. Ridgefield CDP covers 0.52 square miles of land, which is 423 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Ridgefield 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 Ridgefield 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 Ridgefield.
Is zoning published for Ridgefield?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.