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Chatham village, Illinois: commercial real estate data.
Chatham village is a Census village of 14,639 people across 7.41 square miles of land, in Sangamon County. Median household income is $106,773, 80.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 7 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.4 m.
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Chatham
What Chatham is
- Census place typevillage
- Land area7.41 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,977
- County holding the largest share of its areaSangamon 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.
Chatham
How many people live in Chatham
- Population14,639
- Median age35.4
- Population under 184,607
- Share under 1831.5 percent
- Population 65 and over1,748
- Share 65 and over11.9 percent
- Households5,624
- Family households3,631
- Share of households that are families64.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chatham
Income and work in Chatham
- Median household income$106,773
- Per capita income$47,647
- Civilian labor force7,543
- Employed7,270
- Unemployed273 plus or minus 170
- Unemployment rate3.6 percent plus or minus 2.2
- Adults 25 and over9,048
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher98.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher53.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree21.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chatham
Housing in Chatham
- Housing units5,833
- Occupied units5,624
- Vacant units209 plus or minus 120
- Vacancy rate3.6 percent plus or minus 2.1
- Owner occupied4,532
- Renter occupied1,092 plus or minus 260
- Ownership rate80.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$243,200
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,256
- Annual rent as a share of median income14.1 percent
- Single family units4,831
- Share single family82.8 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more919 plus or minus 263
- Share in buildings of two or more15.8 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Mobile homes83 plus or minus 73
- Median year structure built1995
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chatham
How Chatham gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute6,221
- Commuting under 15 minutes1,494 plus or minus 426
- Share commuting under 15 minutes24.0 percent plus or minus 6.6
- Commuting 30 minutes or more1,351 plus or minus 344
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more21.7 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Drove alone77.0 percent
- Carpooled5.7 percent plus or minus 2.0
- Public transport0.2 percent plus or minus 0.4
- Walked0.5 percent plus or minus 0.6
- Worked from home15.3 percent plus or minus 4.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chatham
SBA 7(a) lending to Chatham borrowers
- Approvals7
- Gross approval$1,421,300
- Average approval$203,043
- Median approval$150,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$550,400
- Largest approval$550,400
- Jobs supported82
- Jobs per approval11.7
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Paid in full2
- Charged off0
- Median term60 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more14.3 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders4
- Distinct industries by NAICS5
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 2 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.
Chatham
SBA 504 lending to Chatham borrowers
- Approvals6
- Gross approval$3,314,000
- Average approval$552,333
- Median approval$479,000
- Largest approval$1,228,000
- Jobs supported56
- Loans with a final outcome2
- 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.
Chatham
Flood programme status in Chatham
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number170601
- Currently effective map date08/02/07
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.
Sangamon County, not Chatham
Sangamon County context, not Chatham figures
These are Sangamon County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Chatham measurements.
- Establishments in Sangamon County4,925
- Employment at those establishments, Sangamon County80,005
- Covered employment, Sangamon County134,376
- Average annual pay, Sangamon County$69,350
- Average weekly wage, Sangamon County$1,334
- Housing units permitted, Sangamon County191
- Of those, single family, Sangamon County123
- County product, 2024, Sangamon County$15,668,703,000
- County product change over the prior year, Sangamon County7.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Sangamon County$58,644
Every figure in this section is published for Sangamon County as a whole and is not a measurement of Chatham. 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
Chatham questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Chatham, Illinois?
14,639, in 5,624 households. Chatham village covers 7.41 square miles of land, which is 1,977 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Chatham in?
Sangamon 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 Chatham?
$106,773. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $243,200. Median gross rent is $1,256 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Chatham businesses?
7 7(a) approvals totalling $1.4 m, across 4 lenders, median approval $150,000, plus 6 504 approvals worth $3.3 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Chatham, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Chatham borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Chatham. only 2 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 Chatham in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Chatham appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 170601, 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 Chatham figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Sangamon 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 Chatham.
Is zoning published for Chatham?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.