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Cowden village, Illinois: commercial real estate data.
Cowden village is a Census village of 534 people across 0.40 square miles of land, in Shelby County. Median household income is $62,031, 63.9 percent of occupied homes are owned.
50 sourced place values · tier FULL · 6 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
Cowden
What Cowden is
- Census place typevillage
- Land area0.4 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,329 plus or minus 378
- County holding the largest share of its areaShelby 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.
Cowden
How many people live in Cowden
- Population534 plus or minus 152
- Median age32.4 plus or minus 9.0
- Population under 18188 plus or minus 56
- Share under 1835.2 percent
- Population 65 and over82 plus or minus 31
- Share 65 and over15.4 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Households205 plus or minus 52
- Family households142 plus or minus 38
- Share of households that are families69.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cowden
Income and work in Cowden
- Median household income$62,031
- Per capita income$26,580 plus or minus $6,257
- Civilian labor force207 plus or minus 71
- Employed190 plus or minus 63
- Unemployed17 plus or minus 16
- Unemployment rate8.2 percent plus or minus 7.2
- Adults 25 and over287 plus or minus 82
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher90.9 percent plus or minus 34.4
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher10.1 percent plus or minus 7.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.2 percent plus or minus 6.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cowden
Housing in Cowden
- Housing units227 plus or minus 55
- Occupied units205 plus or minus 52
- Vacant units22 plus or minus 17
- Vacancy rate9.7 percent plus or minus 7.1
- Owner occupied131 plus or minus 35
- Renter occupied74 plus or minus 37
- Ownership rate63.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$77,000
- Median gross rent, monthly$698 plus or minus $331
- Annual rent as a share of median income13.5 percent plus or minus 6.8
- Single family units166 plus or minus 46
- Share single family73.1 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more34 plus or minus 30
- Share in buildings of two or more15.0 percent plus or minus 12.6
- Mobile homes27 plus or minus 13
- Median year structure built1962
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cowden
How Cowden gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute176 plus or minus 56
- Commuting under 15 minutes16 plus or minus 15
- Share commuting under 15 minutes9.1 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Commuting 30 minutes or more97 plus or minus 36
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more55.1 percent
- Drove alone81.6 percent
- Carpooled11.1 percent plus or minus 8.7
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home7.4 percent plus or minus 7.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Shelby County, not Cowden
Shelby County context, not Cowden figures
These are Shelby County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Cowden measurements.
- Establishments in Shelby County422
- Employment at those establishments, Shelby County4,312
- Covered employment, Shelby County4,848
- Average annual pay, Shelby County$48,311
- Average weekly wage, Shelby County$929
- Housing units permitted, Shelby County9
- Of those, single family, Shelby County9
- County product, 2024, Shelby County$1,097,575,000
- County product change over the prior year, Shelby County2.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Shelby County$53,409
Every figure in this section is published for Shelby County as a whole and is not a measurement of Cowden. 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.
- 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
Cowden questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Cowden, Illinois?
534, in 205 households. Cowden village covers 0.40 square miles of land, which is 1,329 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Cowden in?
Shelby 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 Cowden?
$62,031. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $77,000. Median gross rent is $698 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Cowden figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Shelby 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 Cowden.
Is zoning published for Cowden?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.