61265Moline, Illinois

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 61265.

60out of 100
Area Score
Top 49% of 5,298 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity4480th of 6,210 ZIP areas measured44
Schools3496th of 4,422 ZIP areas measured28
Growth3250th of 5,428 ZIP areas measured44
Housing affordabilityTop 9% of 6,685 ZIP areas measured100
Climate5895th of 6,789 ZIP areas measured59
Physical resilienceTop 25% of 6,709 ZIP areas measured79
AccessTop 32% of 6,791 ZIP areas measured97
Economic stability4092nd of 6,742 ZIP areas measured54
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published ZIP profiles: unemployment is 4.4% and the Opportunity signal places 61265 in the bottom 28%.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 16% of median household income and the median home is 2.2 times it.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published ZIP profiles, placing 61265 in the top 25% for physical resilience.

At a glance

Population
43,748
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$66,933
Bottom 42% nationally
Density
2,276/sq mi
19.2 sq mi of land
Median age
37.9
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Moline
Illinois
Metro area
Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL
Nearest major airport
MLI
2 mi · Quad Cities Intl
Median home value
$147,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.4% is lower than 52% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 1.7% over the past year, to 19,449 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$3,701$66,933Bottom 42%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,699$36,247Bottom 49%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate15.5%Top 30%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute19.4 minBottom 12%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher28.1%Top 38%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment19,449Bottom 18%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-0.8%Bottom 36%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.7%Bottom 28%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force20,341Bottom 18%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation65.5%Top 30%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$61,900Bottom 27%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Median annual wage$48,550Bottom 31%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.0%Bottom 47%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate4.4%Bottom 48%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202467k60k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $66,933 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers4,810$31,200
Retail Salespersons4,760$32,030
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand4,370$42,980
Cashiers4,250$31,200
General and Operations Managers3,750$91,140
Registered Nurses3,520$77,150

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Moline, IL, the city containing this ZIP code.

11% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 19% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 16.2 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
14
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
16.2
across all schools here
Math proficiency
11.1%
Bottom 21% in Illinois
Reading proficiency
18.6%
Bottom 28% in Illinois
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Moline Sr High SchoolMoline-Coal Valley CUSD 402,19518.4
Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMoline-Coal Valley CUSD 4086016.512%22%
John Deere Middle SchoolMoline-Coal Valley CUSD 4077015.48%17%
Hamilton Elem SchoolMoline-Coal Valley CUSD 4056015.114%19%
Roosevelt Elem SchoolMoline-Coal Valley CUSD 4038412.85%18%
Lincoln-Irving Elem SchoolMoline-Coal Valley CUSD 4038214.75%5%
George Washington Elem SchoolMoline-Coal Valley CUSD 4032315.410%13%
Jane Addams Elementary SchoolMoline-Coal Valley CUSD 4029915.718%35%
Benjamin Franklin Elem SchoolMoline-Coal Valley CUSD 4029014.512%28%
Logan Elem SchoolMoline-Coal Valley CUSD 4029014.59%12%
Butterworth Elem SchoolMoline-Coal Valley CUSD 4027317.124%24%
Willard Elem SchoolMoline-Coal Valley CUSD 4017314.412%8%

62.8% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Illinois’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $909 takes 16% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.2 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
16.3%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.2×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$909
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$147,000
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income2.20Bottom 21%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate67.7%Bottom 25%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±53920,302Top 3%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$41$909Bottom 38%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$5,640$147,000Bottom 25%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income16.3%Bottom 40%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate6.4%Bottom 30%of 33,0282024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
44/ 100
Ranks 3250 of 5,428 published city profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

76% of recently permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes, so new supply is concentrated in apartments and condominiums rather than detached houses.

At 2.1 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
90
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
2.1
Bottom 42% nationally
Year over year
+6%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
75.6%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Moline, IL, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 86°F and January a low of 15°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 38.3 inches, including 36.1 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 44, in the Good band, and no day in the year passed 100.

0°20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station MOLINE QUAD CITY INTL AP, 2.2 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.0"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index55.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation38.3"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall36.1"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low15°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high86°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index44.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing52°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
44
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
55
90th percentile index
Days above 100
0
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

79 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, strong wind and hail.

Strong windModerate
HailElevated
Inland floodingModerate
DroughtModerate

Low or minimal exposure: cold wave, heat wave, tornado, winter weather, lightning, landslide, ice storm, earthquake, hurricane, wildfire.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Rock Island County records 4.2 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 7.1 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 7.1 per 100,000 residents in Rock Island County.

Homicide
4.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
7.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
7.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
11.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Rock Island County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 61265 rather than 61265 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 2 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Quad Cities IntlMLI2 mi10,002 ft
The Eastern IowaCID69 mi8,600 ft
General Downing - Peoria IntlPIA70 mi10,104 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

61265 vs Moline

How this ZIP area compares with Moline as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

61265
Moline
Median household income
$66,933
vs
$67,701
Per capita income
$36,247
vs
$36,476
Population density
2,276/sq mi
vs
2,519/sq mi
Median home value
$147,000
vs
$146,300
Median gross rent
$909
vs
$900
Homeownership rate
67.7%
vs
67.3%
Bachelor's degree or higher
28.1%
vs
28.8%
Poverty rate
15.5%
vs
15.5%
Median age
37.9
vs
38.0

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.