60545Plano, Illinois

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 60545.

63out of 100
Area Score
Top 39% of 5,298 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity4050th of 6,210 ZIP areas measured48
Growth4098th of 5,428 ZIP areas measured35
Housing affordabilityTop 35% of 6,685 ZIP areas measured88
Climate5904th of 6,789 ZIP areas measured59
Physical resilienceTop 21% of 6,709 ZIP areas measured81
Access5319th of 6,791 ZIP areas measured80
Economic stabilityTop 24% of 6,742 ZIP areas measured73
The quick read

Unemployment is 4.4% and median household income $86,756, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published ZIP profiles.

Rent takes 23% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 2.8 times that income.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published ZIP profiles, placing 60545 in the top 21% for physical resilience.

At a glance

Population
14,392
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$86,756
Top 30% nationally
Density
393/sq mi
36.6 sq mi of land
Median age
32.8
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Plano
Illinois
Metro area
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
Nearest major airport
ORD
38 mi · Chicago O'Hare Intl
Median home value
$241,500
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

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

Employment fell 1.9% over the past year, to 72,986 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$10,685$86,756Top 30%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$4,133$35,275Bottom 46%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate11.2%Top 47%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute30.5 minTop 36%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher23.6%Top 49%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment72,986Top 42%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-0.5%Bottom 42%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.9%Bottom 20%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force76,358Top 42%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation76.1%Top 5%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$73,380Top 30%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Median annual wage$54,720Top 33%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.4%Top 34%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate4.4%Bottom 48%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202489k83k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $86,756 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 — Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand157,920$40,550
General and Operations Managers122,930$109,390
Home Health and Personal Care Aides108,520$38,180
Registered Nurses100,240$100,490
Cashiers99,240$35,010
Fast Food and Counter Workers97,280$34,630

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 Plano, IL, the city containing this ZIP code.

There are 13.3 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
7
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
13.3
across all schools here
Math proficiency
Reading proficiency
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Plano High SchoolPlano CUSD 8875713.5
Emily G Johns SchoolPlano CUSD 8849413.4
P H Miller Elem SchoolPlano CUSD 8843814.6
Plano Middle SchoolPlano CUSD 8835812.3
Centennial Elem SchoolPlano CUSD 8835112.5
FLEX ProgramGrundy/Kendall ROE0
Plano CUSD 88Plano Area Special Ed Coop0

54.2% 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 $1,667 takes 23% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.8 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
23.1%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.8×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,667
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$241,500
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income2.78Bottom 39%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate73.0%Bottom 36%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4205,095Top 27%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$164$1,667Top 17%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$13,569$241,500Top 44%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income23.1%Top 21%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate3.3%Bottom 14%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
35/ 100
Ranks 4098 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.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 0.3 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
4
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
0.3
Bottom 12% nationally
Year over year
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Plano, 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 84°F and January a low of 15°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 33.8 inches.

0°20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station CHICAGO AURORA MUNI AP, 6.8 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.1"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation33.8"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low15°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high84°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing50°F1991-2020 Normals

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.

Physical risk

81 / 100
Physical resilience

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

TornadoModerate
Strong windModerate
Inland floodingModerate
Heat waveModerate

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

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.

Kendall County records 2.8 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 9.3 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 6.1 per 100,000 residents in Kendall County.

Homicide
2.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
9.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
6.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
13.6
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 Kendall 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 60545 rather than 60545 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
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes and full cost of living
No public source publishes either with national coverage and a method open enough to check. 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. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 38 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Chicago O'Hare IntlORD38 mi11,245 ft
Gary/Chicago IntlGYY58 mi8,859 ft
Central Il Rgnl/Bloomington-NormalBMI85 mi8,000 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
2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them

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.

60545 vs Plano

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

60545
Plano
Median household income
$86,756
vs
$86,271
Per capita income
$35,275
vs
$33,274
Population density
393/sq mi
vs
1,359/sq mi
Median home value
$241,500
vs
$230,700
Median gross rent
$1,667
vs
$1,686
Homeownership rate
73.0%
vs
70.3%
Bachelor's degree or higher
23.6%
vs
22.9%
Poverty rate
11.2%
vs
10.2%
Median age
32.8
vs
31.6

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.