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Bluffs village, Illinois: commercial real estate data.
Bluffs village is a Census village of 531 people across 0.89 square miles of land, in Scott County. Median household income is $69,250, 72.5 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Bluffs
What Bluffs is
- Census place typevillage
- Land area0.89 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land595 plus or minus 136
- County holding the largest share of its areaScott 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.
Bluffs
How many people live in Bluffs
- Population531 plus or minus 121
- Median age44.8
- Population under 1889 plus or minus 39
- Share under 1816.8 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Population 65 and over107 plus or minus 32
- Share 65 and over20.2 percent
- Households233
- Family households121 plus or minus 37
- Share of households that are families51.9 percent plus or minus 12.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bluffs
Income and work in Bluffs
- Median household income$69,250 plus or minus $17,639
- Per capita income$39,555
- Civilian labor force269 plus or minus 71
- Employed264 plus or minus 71
- Unemployed5 plus or minus 8
- Unemployment rate1.9 percent plus or minus 2.9
- Adults 25 and over383 plus or minus 81
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher92.4 percent plus or minus 27.2
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher18.0 percent plus or minus 7.3
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.8 percent plus or minus 3.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bluffs
Housing in Bluffs
- Housing units290
- Occupied units233
- Vacant units57 plus or minus 26
- Vacancy rate19.7 percent plus or minus 8.4
- Owner occupied169 plus or minus 41
- Renter occupied64 plus or minus 25
- Ownership rate72.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$73,600
- Median gross rent, monthly$700 plus or minus $178
- Annual rent as a share of median income12.1 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Single family units250 plus or minus 52
- Share single family86.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more32 plus or minus 23
- Share in buildings of two or more11.0 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Mobile homes8 plus or minus 8
- Median year structure built1956
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bluffs
How Bluffs gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute240 plus or minus 69
- Commuting under 15 minutes73 plus or minus 30
- Share commuting under 15 minutes30.4 percent plus or minus 9.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more61 plus or minus 23
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more25.4 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Drove alone81.7 percent
- Carpooled10.5 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home6.6 percent plus or minus 4.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bluffs
SBA 504 lending to Bluffs borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$1,082,000
- Average approval$1,082,000
- Median approval$1,082,000
- Largest approval$1,082,000
- Jobs supported30
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs1
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Bluffs
Flood programme status in Bluffs
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number170608
- Currently effective map date08/18/09
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.
Scott County, not Bluffs
Scott County context, not Bluffs figures
These are Scott County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Bluffs measurements.
- Establishments in Scott County84
- Employment at those establishments, Scott County604
- Covered employment, Scott County920
- Average annual pay, Scott County$49,729
- Average weekly wage, Scott County$956
- County product, 2024, Scott County$207,793,000
- County product change over the prior year, Scott County4.8 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Scott County$42,656
Every figure in this section is published for Scott County as a whole and is not a measurement of Bluffs. 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 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
Bluffs questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Bluffs, Illinois?
531, in 233 households. Bluffs village covers 0.89 square miles of land, which is 595 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Bluffs in?
Scott 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 Bluffs?
$69,250. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $73,600. Median gross rent is $700 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Is Bluffs in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Bluffs appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 170608, 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 Bluffs figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Scott 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 Bluffs.
Is zoning published for Bluffs?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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