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Mount Carmel city, Illinois: commercial real estate data.
Mount Carmel city is a Census city of 6,854 people across 4.81 square miles of land, in Wabash County. Median household income is $47,009, 66.7 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Mount Carmel
What Mount Carmel is
- Census place typecity
- Land area4.81 sq mi
- Water area0.14 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,425
- County holding the largest share of its areaWabash 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.
Mount Carmel
How many people live in Mount Carmel
- Population6,854
- Median age42.8
- Population under 181,453
- Share under 1821.2 percent
- Population 65 and over1,557
- Share 65 and over22.7 percent
- Households2,979
- Family households1,753
- Share of households that are families58.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Mount Carmel
Income and work in Mount Carmel
- Median household income$47,009
- Per capita income$30,242
- Civilian labor force2,974
- Employed2,840
- Unemployed134 plus or minus 68
- Unemployment rate4.5 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Adults 25 and over4,772
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher92.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher17.0 percent plus or minus 3.6
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.7 percent plus or minus 2.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Mount Carmel
- Housing units3,338
- Occupied units2,979
- Vacant units359 plus or minus 128
- Vacancy rate10.8 percent plus or minus 3.8
- Owner occupied1,986
- Renter occupied993
- Ownership rate66.7 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$89,300
- Median gross rent, monthly$804
- Annual rent as a share of median income20.5 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Single family units2,481
- Share single family74.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more613 plus or minus 154
- Share in buildings of two or more18.4 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Mobile homes244 plus or minus 87
- Median year structure built1956
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Mount Carmel
How Mount Carmel gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute2,724
- Commuting under 15 minutes1,337
- Share commuting under 15 minutes49.1 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more672 plus or minus 161
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more24.7 percent plus or minus 5.5
- Drove alone79.0 percent
- Carpooled12.5 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked3.7 percent plus or minus 1.9
- Worked from home2.9 percent plus or minus 1.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Mount Carmel
Flood risk in Mount Carmel
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number170672
- Currently effective map date12/16/11
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.
Wabash County, not Mount Carmel
Wabash County context, not Mount Carmel figures
These are Wabash County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Mount Carmel measurements.
- Establishments in Wabash County249
- Employment at those establishments, Wabash County2,660
- Covered employment, Wabash County3,376
- Average annual pay, Wabash County$50,640
- Average weekly wage, Wabash County$974
- Housing units permitted, Wabash County2
- Of those, single family, Wabash County2
- County product, 2024, Wabash County$451,021,000
- County product change over the prior year, Wabash County3.2 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Wabash County$54,242
Every figure in this section is published for Wabash County as a whole and is not a measurement of Mount Carmel. 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.
- 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
Mount Carmel questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Mount Carmel, Illinois?
6,854, in 2,979 households. Mount Carmel city covers 4.81 square miles of land, which is 1,425 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Mount Carmel in?
Wabash 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 Mount Carmel?
$47,009. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $89,300. Median gross rent is $804 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Is Mount Carmel in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Mount Carmel appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 170672, 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 Mount Carmel figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Wabash 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 Mount Carmel.
Is zoning published for Mount Carmel?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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