2000 vs. 2015 Personal Income Growth and Change

Illinois Real Personal Income Growth by County

2000 vs. 2015, Net Percent Change

Kendall County 2000 vs. 2015

Net Percent Change = 144.81%

Rank = #1

Alexander County 2000 vs. 2015

Net Percent Change = -6.32%

Rank = #102

Tazewell County 2000 vs. 2015

Net Percent Change = 22.13%

Rank = #34

With a spotlight on Tazewell County, the chart above displays the distribution of the net percent change of real (inflation adjusted) personal income across Illinois' 102 counties over the period 2000-2015.

Those counties whose real personal income growth registered above the statewide average over this period realized an increase in their statewide share of real personal income. Likewise, those counties whose real personal income growth registered below the statewide average experienced a decline in their relative share of real personal income statewide.

Statewide Snippets:

Over 2000-2015 real personal income grew in ninety-six Illinois counties while declining in six.
Real personal income growth in thirty-five counties outpaced the statewide average (21.23%), while growth in sixty-seven counties trailed.
At the extremes of the distribution, Kendall County posted the highest growth of real personal income (144.81%), while Alexander County placed last by logging a -6.32% decline.
The spread in real personal income growth between the highest (Kendall County, 144.81%) and lowest (Alexander County, -6.32%) over 2000-2015 equated to 151.13% ( = 144.81% − -6.32%).
Real personal income growth statewide is but a weighted metric that stems from each county's share of real personal income statewide. On this point, as the largest county in Illinois, Cook County's net real personal income growth over 2000-2015 of $43,634,101K made up 36.89% of the total net growth statewide ($118,276,877K):

Cook County: Percent Share of Illinois'
Real Personal Income Growth, 2000-2015:

36.89% = ($43,634,101K / $118,276,877K) x 100

Tazewell County Snippets:

Over 2000-2015, Tazewell County posted a 22.13% net gain in real personal income.
Tazewell County was joined by thirty-four other counties whose real personal income growth over 2000-2015 registered above the statewide average (21.23%).
Ranked #34 among Illinois' 102 counties, Tazewell County's real personal income growth (22.13%) outperformed the statewide average of 21.23% by a 0.90% margin.
Tazewell County's net real personal income growth (22.13%, #34) over 2000-2015 registered just above that of Richland County (21.54%, #35) and just below that of Madison County (22.65%, #33).

Real Personal Income Growth by County

2000 vs. 2015, Net Percent Change

County Distribution of Real Personal Income Growth, 2000 vs. 2015

	More than 50%	50% to 40%	40% to 30%	30% to 20%	20% to 10%	10% to 0%	0% to -10%	-10% or Below	Total
2000 vs. 2015	7	5	8	19	34	23	6	0	102

Real Personal Income by County, 2015

County Distribution of Real Personal Income, 2015

	More than $100,000M	$100,000M to $80,000M	$80,000M to $60,000M	$60,000M to $40,000M	$40,000M to $20,000M	$20,000M or Below	Total
2015	1	0	1	1	2	97	102

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Illinois Real* Personal Income by County:
2000 vs. 2015

	2000		2015		2000 - 2015
County	Constant Dollars (1000s)	Percent of State Total	Constant Dollars (1000s)	Percent of State Total	Net Percent Change	Net Change (1000s)	Share (%) of State Change
Adams	2,323,802	0.42	2,856,803	0.42	22.94	533,001	0.45
Alexander	228,399	0.04	213,969	0.03	-6.32	-14,430	-0.01
Bond	566,316	0.10	565,288	0.08	-0.18	-1,028	0.00
Boone	1,605,275	0.29	2,298,648	0.34	43.19	693,374	0.59
Brown	156,494	0.03	205,168	0.03	31.10	48,674	0.04
Bureau	1,246,397	0.22	1,314,775	0.19	5.49	68,378	0.06
Calhoun	160,004	0.03	182,320	0.03	13.95	22,317	0.02
Carroll	576,009	0.10	609,147	0.09	5.75	33,139	0.03
Cass	450,410	0.08	484,003	0.07	7.46	33,592	0.03
Champaign	6,559,458	1.18	9,309,022	1.38	41.92	2,749,564	2.32
Christian	1,175,049	0.21	1,272,076	0.19	8.26	97,026	0.08
Clark	522,147	0.09	594,292	0.09	13.82	72,145	0.06
Clay	432,492	0.08	487,227	0.07	12.66	54,735	0.05
Clinton	1,281,492	0.23	1,584,700	0.23	23.66	303,208	0.26
Coles	1,691,333	0.30	1,961,877	0.29	16.00	270,544	0.23
Cook	255,913,366	45.94	299,547,467	44.36	17.05	43,634,101	36.89
Crawford	617,075	0.11	853,041	0.13	38.24	235,966	0.20
Cumberland	366,341	0.07	638,211	0.09	74.21	271,870	0.23
DeKalb	3,198,759	0.57	3,956,434	0.59	23.69	757,675	0.64
De Witt	596,830	0.11	704,081	0.10	17.97	107,251	0.09
Douglas	685,961	0.12	900,260	0.13	31.24	214,299	0.18
DuPage	58,142,826	10.44	63,070,173	9.34	8.47	4,927,347	4.17
Edgar	674,075	0.12	633,372	0.09	-6.04	-40,703	-0.03
Edwards	201,105	0.04	240,554	0.04	19.62	39,449	0.03
Effingham	1,163,477	0.21	1,492,382	0.22	28.27	328,905	0.28
Fayette	573,229	0.10	703,183	0.10	22.67	129,954	0.11
Ford	545,812	0.10	579,727	0.09	6.21	33,916	0.03
Franklin	1,080,778	0.19	1,376,571	0.20	27.37	295,793	0.25
Fulton	1,155,882	0.21	1,242,638	0.18	7.51	86,756	0.07
Gallatin	180,999	0.03	190,047	0.03	5.00	9,048	0.01
Greene	393,835	0.07	429,034	0.06	8.94	35,199	0.03
Grundy	1,471,370	0.26	2,475,511	0.37	68.25	1,004,140	0.85
Hamilton	232,733	0.04	313,121	0.05	34.54	80,389	0.07
Hancock	664,428	0.12	742,166	0.11	11.70	77,738	0.07
Hardin	122,450	0.02	141,777	0.02	15.78	19,327	0.02
Henderson	261,093	0.05	268,461	0.04	2.82	7,368	0.01
Henry	1,789,231	0.32	2,117,771	0.31	18.36	328,540	0.28
Iroquois	1,039,379	0.19	1,127,273	0.17	8.46	87,894	0.07
Jackson	1,828,746	0.33	2,056,351	0.30	12.45	227,605	0.19
Jasper	304,096	0.05	358,603	0.05	17.92	54,507	0.05
Jefferson	1,179,409	0.21	1,414,667	0.21	19.95	235,259	0.20
Jersey	752,834	0.14	828,196	0.12	10.01	75,362	0.06
Jo Daviess	850,901	0.15	970,576	0.14	14.06	119,675	0.10
Johnson	302,915	0.05	421,816	0.06	39.25	118,901	0.10
Kane	17,040,642	3.06	25,063,815	3.71	47.08	8,023,172	6.78
Kankakee	3,538,113	0.64	4,270,847	0.63	20.71	732,733	0.62
Kendall	2,327,272	0.42	5,697,404	0.84	144.81	3,370,132	2.85
Knox	1,815,038	0.33	1,941,389	0.29	6.96	126,351	0.11
Lake	41,594,810	7.47	52,304,600	7.75	25.75	10,709,790	9.05
LaSalle	3,933,021	0.71	4,554,341	0.67	15.80	621,319	0.53
Lawrence	504,927	0.09	486,333	0.07	-3.68	-18,594	-0.02
Lee	1,155,966	0.21	1,355,323	0.20	17.25	199,358	0.17
Livingston	1,403,755	0.25	1,447,167	0.21	3.09	43,412	0.04
Logan	969,983	0.17	999,930	0.15	3.09	29,947	0.03
McDonough	983,280	0.18	1,132,681	0.17	15.19	149,401	0.13
McHenry	11,896,265	2.14	15,904,171	2.36	33.69	4,007,905	3.39
McLean	6,124,869	1.10	8,088,659	1.20	32.06	1,963,789	1.66
Macon	4,312,912	0.77	4,815,221	0.71	11.65	502,309	0.42
Macoupin	1,593,438	0.29	1,722,003	0.25	8.07	128,565	0.11
Madison	9,350,007	1.68	11,467,923	1.70	22.65	2,117,916	1.79
Marion	1,293,314	0.23	1,511,633	0.22	16.88	218,320	0.18
Marshall	467,863	0.08	499,692	0.07	6.80	31,828	0.03
Mason	535,250	0.10	514,488	0.08	-3.88	-20,761	-0.02
Massac	433,978	0.08	507,627	0.08	16.97	73,649	0.06
Menard	477,164	0.09	519,552	0.08	8.88	42,388	0.04
Mercer	562,502	0.10	679,694	0.10	20.83	117,192	0.10
Monroe	1,140,007	0.20	1,822,348	0.27	59.85	682,341	0.58
Montgomery	934,307	0.17	939,639	0.14	0.57	5,332	0.00
Morgan	1,176,741	0.21	1,298,238	0.19	10.32	121,497	0.10
Moultrie	469,413	0.08	731,738	0.11	55.88	262,325	0.22
Ogle	1,819,970	0.33	2,174,627	0.32	19.49	354,657	0.30
Peoria	7,081,655	1.27	9,079,964	1.34	28.22	1,998,309	1.69
Perry	569,294	0.10	728,646	0.11	27.99	159,352	0.13
Piatt	687,147	0.12	797,842	0.12	16.11	110,694	0.09
Pike	493,120	0.09	586,169	0.09	18.87	93,049	0.08
Pope	111,731	0.02	116,467	0.02	4.24	4,736	0.00
Pulaski	178,822	0.03	186,424	0.03	4.25	7,602	0.01
Putnam	196,076	0.04	334,965	0.05	70.83	138,890	0.12
Randolph	907,828	0.16	1,128,413	0.17	24.30	220,585	0.19
Richland	504,370	0.09	613,021	0.09	21.54	108,651	0.09
Rock Island	5,523,060	0.99	6,062,576	0.90	9.77	539,517	0.46
St. Clair	8,937,968	1.60	11,187,874	1.66	25.17	2,249,906	1.90
Saline	760,096	0.14	892,135	0.13	17.37	132,039	0.11
Sangamon	7,963,355	1.43	8,946,560	1.32	12.35	983,204	0.83
Schuyler	230,278	0.04	277,431	0.04	20.48	47,153	0.04
Scott	161,520	0.03	181,377	0.03	12.29	19,857	0.02
Shelby	700,041	0.13	769,596	0.11	9.94	69,555	0.06
Stark	217,396	0.04	217,401	0.03	0.00	5	0.00
Stephenson	1,787,746	0.32	1,778,567	0.26	-0.51	-9,179	-0.01
Tazewell	4,945,386	0.89	6,039,709	0.89	22.13	1,094,322	0.93
Union	513,497	0.09	669,907	0.10	30.46	156,410	0.13
Vermilion	2,546,351	0.46	2,888,884	0.43	13.45	342,533	0.29
Wabash	389,968	0.07	464,297	0.07	19.06	74,329	0.06
Warren	554,182	0.10	636,621	0.09	14.88	82,439	0.07
Washington	528,077	0.09	585,951	0.09	10.96	57,874	0.05
Wayne	501,024	0.09	602,023	0.09	20.16	100,999	0.09
White	490,118	0.09	613,814	0.09	25.24	123,696	0.10
Whiteside	2,057,269	0.37	2,330,207	0.35	13.27	272,938	0.23
Will	20,793,701	3.73	34,062,266	5.04	63.81	13,268,565	11.22
Williamson	1,913,403	0.34	2,819,372	0.42	47.35	905,970	0.77
Winnebago	10,391,211	1.87	11,635,163	1.72	11.97	1,243,951	1.05
Woodford	1,288,270	0.23	1,903,150	0.28	47.73	614,880	0.52

Illinois	557,043,777	100.00	675,320,654	100.00	21.23	118,276,877	100.00
Metropolitan	507,671,643	91.14	618,366,991	91.57	21.80	110,695,349	93.59
Nonmetropolitan	49,372,134	8.86	56,953,662	8.43	15.36	7,581,528	6.41

United States	11,677,052,911		15,896,476,839		36.13	4,219,423,928
Metropolitan U.S.	10,325,098,869		14,131,493,002		36.87	3,806,394,133
Nonmetropolitan U.S.	1,351,954,042		1,764,983,837		30.55	413,029,795

*Real total personal income determined using the Implicit Price Deflator for
Personal Consumption (2017=1.00).

Source: Calculations by the Illinois Regional Economic Analysis Project (IL-REAP)
with data provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis

November 2023

REAP_PI_CA1400_YRVYR_300A

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Illinois Personal Income by County:
2000 vs. 2015

	2000		2015		2000 - 2015
County	Current Dollars (1000s)	Percent of State Total	Current Dollars (1000s)	Percent of State Total	Net Percent Change	Net Change (1000s)	Share (%) of State Change
Adams	1,715,477	0.42	2,779,641	0.42	62.03	1,064,164	0.43
Alexander	168,609	0.04	208,190	0.03	23.48	39,581	0.02
Bond	418,066	0.10	550,020	0.08	31.56	131,954	0.05
Boone	1,185,046	0.29	2,236,562	0.34	88.73	1,051,516	0.43
Brown	115,527	0.03	199,626	0.03	72.80	84,099	0.03
Bureau	920,115	0.22	1,279,263	0.19	39.03	359,148	0.15
Calhoun	118,118	0.03	177,396	0.03	50.19	59,278	0.02
Carroll	425,221	0.10	592,694	0.09	39.38	167,473	0.07
Cass	332,502	0.08	470,930	0.07	41.63	138,428	0.06
Champaign	4,842,323	1.18	9,057,585	1.38	87.05	4,215,262	1.71
Christian	867,445	0.21	1,237,717	0.19	42.69	370,272	0.15
Clark	385,459	0.09	578,240	0.09	50.01	192,781	0.08
Clay	319,274	0.08	474,067	0.07	48.48	154,793	0.06
Clinton	946,023	0.23	1,541,897	0.23	62.99	595,874	0.24
Coles	1,248,576	0.30	1,908,887	0.29	52.89	660,311	0.27
Cook	188,920,365	45.94	291,456,690	44.36	54.27	102,536,325	41.71
Crawford	455,537	0.11	830,000	0.13	82.20	374,463	0.15
Cumberland	270,440	0.07	620,973	0.09	129.62	350,533	0.14
DeKalb	2,361,388	0.57	3,849,571	0.59	63.02	1,488,183	0.61
De Witt	440,592	0.11	685,064	0.10	55.49	244,472	0.10
Douglas	506,390	0.12	875,944	0.13	72.98	369,554	0.15
DuPage	42,922,197	10.44	61,366,648	9.34	42.97	18,444,451	7.50
Edgar	497,616	0.12	616,265	0.09	23.84	118,649	0.05
Edwards	148,460	0.04	234,057	0.04	57.66	85,597	0.03
Effingham	858,902	0.21	1,452,073	0.22	69.06	593,171	0.24
Fayette	423,169	0.10	684,190	0.10	61.68	261,021	0.11
Ford	402,929	0.10	564,069	0.09	39.99	161,140	0.07
Franklin	797,852	0.19	1,339,390	0.20	67.87	541,538	0.22
Fulton	853,295	0.21	1,209,074	0.18	41.69	355,779	0.14
Gallatin	133,617	0.03	184,914	0.03	38.39	51,297	0.02
Greene	290,737	0.07	417,446	0.06	43.58	126,709	0.05
Grundy	1,086,195	0.26	2,408,647	0.37	121.75	1,322,452	0.54
Hamilton	171,808	0.04	304,664	0.05	77.33	132,856	0.05
Hancock	490,494	0.12	722,120	0.11	47.22	231,626	0.09
Hardin	90,395	0.02	137,948	0.02	52.61	47,553	0.02
Henderson	192,744	0.05	261,210	0.04	35.52	68,466	0.03
Henry	1,320,846	0.32	2,060,570	0.31	56.00	739,724	0.30
Iroquois	767,290	0.19	1,096,825	0.17	42.95	329,535	0.13
Jackson	1,350,017	0.33	2,000,809	0.30	48.21	650,792	0.26
Jasper	224,490	0.05	348,917	0.05	55.43	124,427	0.05
Jefferson	870,663	0.21	1,376,457	0.21	58.09	505,794	0.21
Jersey	555,757	0.14	805,826	0.12	45.00	250,069	0.10
Jo Daviess	628,152	0.15	944,361	0.14	50.34	316,209	0.13
Johnson	223,618	0.05	410,423	0.06	83.54	186,805	0.08
Kane	12,579,743	3.06	24,386,841	3.71	93.86	11,807,098	4.80
Kankakee	2,611,906	0.64	4,155,491	0.63	59.10	1,543,585	0.63
Kendall	1,718,039	0.42	5,543,517	0.84	222.67	3,825,478	1.56
Knox	1,339,897	0.33	1,888,952	0.29	40.98	549,055	0.22
Lake	30,706,121	7.47	50,891,853	7.75	65.74	20,185,732	8.21
LaSalle	2,903,435	0.71	4,431,328	0.67	52.62	1,527,893	0.62
Lawrence	372,747	0.09	473,197	0.07	26.95	100,450	0.04
Lee	853,357	0.21	1,318,716	0.20	54.53	465,359	0.19
Livingston	1,036,280	0.25	1,408,079	0.21	35.88	371,799	0.15
Logan	716,061	0.17	972,922	0.15	35.87	256,861	0.10
McDonough	725,877	0.18	1,102,087	0.17	51.83	376,210	0.15
McHenry	8,782,061	2.14	15,474,599	2.36	76.21	6,692,538	2.72
McLean	4,521,501	1.10	7,870,184	1.20	74.06	3,348,683	1.36
Macon	3,183,878	0.77	4,685,162	0.71	47.15	1,501,284	0.61
Macoupin	1,176,308	0.29	1,675,492	0.25	42.44	499,184	0.20
Madison	6,902,362	1.68	11,158,174	1.70	61.66	4,255,812	1.73
Marion	954,750	0.23	1,470,804	0.22	54.05	516,054	0.21
Marshall	345,386	0.08	486,195	0.07	40.77	140,809	0.06
Mason	395,132	0.10	500,592	0.08	26.69	105,460	0.04
Massac	320,371	0.08	493,916	0.08	54.17	173,545	0.07
Menard	352,252	0.09	505,519	0.08	43.51	153,267	0.06
Mercer	415,250	0.10	661,335	0.10	59.26	246,085	0.10
Monroe	841,576	0.20	1,773,126	0.27	110.69	931,550	0.38
Montgomery	689,724	0.17	914,259	0.14	32.55	224,535	0.09
Morgan	868,694	0.21	1,263,173	0.19	45.41	394,479	0.16
Moultrie	346,530	0.08	711,974	0.11	105.46	365,444	0.15
Ogle	1,343,538	0.33	2,115,890	0.32	57.49	772,352	0.31
Peoria	5,227,819	1.27	8,834,714	1.34	68.99	3,606,895	1.47
Perry	420,264	0.10	708,965	0.11	68.70	288,701	0.12
Piatt	507,266	0.12	776,292	0.12	53.03	269,026	0.11
Pike	364,031	0.09	570,337	0.09	56.67	206,306	0.08
Pope	82,482	0.02	113,321	0.02	37.39	30,839	0.01
Pulaski	132,010	0.03	181,389	0.03	37.41	49,379	0.02
Putnam	144,747	0.04	325,918	0.05	125.16	181,171	0.07
Randolph	670,177	0.16	1,097,935	0.17	63.83	427,758	0.17
Richland	372,336	0.09	596,463	0.09	60.19	224,127	0.09
Rock Island	4,077,233	0.99	5,898,826	0.90	44.68	1,821,593	0.74
St. Clair	6,598,187	1.60	10,885,690	1.66	64.98	4,287,503	1.74
Saline	561,118	0.14	868,038	0.13	54.70	306,920	0.12
Sangamon	5,878,708	1.43	8,704,913	1.32	48.08	2,826,205	1.15
Schuyler	169,996	0.04	269,938	0.04	58.79	99,942	0.04
Scott	119,237	0.03	176,478	0.03	48.01	57,241	0.02
Shelby	516,784	0.13	748,809	0.11	44.90	232,025	0.09
Stark	160,486	0.04	211,529	0.03	31.81	51,043	0.02
Stephenson	1,319,750	0.32	1,730,528	0.26	31.13	410,778	0.17
Tazewell	3,650,783	0.89	5,876,576	0.89	60.97	2,225,793	0.91
Union	379,074	0.09	651,813	0.10	71.95	272,739	0.11
Vermilion	1,879,767	0.46	2,810,855	0.43	49.53	931,088	0.38
Wabash	287,882	0.07	451,756	0.07	56.92	163,874	0.07
Warren	409,108	0.10	619,426	0.09	51.41	210,318	0.09
Washington	389,837	0.09	570,124	0.09	46.25	180,287	0.07
Wayne	369,866	0.09	585,762	0.09	58.37	215,896	0.09
White	361,815	0.09	597,235	0.09	65.07	235,420	0.10
Whiteside	1,518,717	0.37	2,267,268	0.35	49.29	748,551	0.30
Will	15,350,326	3.73	33,142,244	5.04	115.91	17,791,918	7.24
Williamson	1,412,512	0.34	2,743,221	0.42	94.21	1,330,709	0.54
Winnebago	7,671,000	1.87	11,320,897	1.72	47.58	3,649,897	1.48
Woodford	951,027	0.23	1,851,746	0.28	94.71	900,719	0.37

Illinois	411,220,857	100.00	657,080,243	100.00	59.79	245,859,386	100.00
Metropolitan	374,773,360	91.14	601,664,899	91.57	60.54	226,891,539	92.29
Nonmetropolitan	36,447,497	8.86	55,415,344	8.43	52.04	18,967,847	7.71

United States	8,620,234,000		15,467,113,000		79.43	6,846,879,000
Metropolitan U.S.	7,622,194,487		13,749,801,376		80.39	6,127,606,889
Nonmetropolitan U.S.	998,039,513		1,717,311,624		72.07	719,272,111

Source: Calculations by the Illinois Regional Economic Analysis Project (IL-REAP)
with data provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis

November 2023

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