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The waiting list is the policy / Illinois

Illinois

Full

Every county in Illinois

101 counties

Ranked by units under contract. 92 of 101 publish a wait figure; the rest are suppressed (fewer than 11 families), missing, or non-reporting, and are shown as "no data" rather than as a zero.

County Units Households Wait (mo, those admitted) ELI need met
Cook County 128,862 113,999 45 39.3%
Lake County 8,944 7,727 12 40.2%
DuPage County 6,712 6,328 27 31.8%
Winnebago County 6,394 5,349 20 38.7%
St. Clair County 5,908 4,788 26 37.6%
Peoria County 5,690 4,711 12 46%
Kane County 4,590 4,141 29 29.8%
Rock Island County 4,484 3,964 10 52.9%
Will County 4,367 3,791 15 29.3%
Sangamon County 4,182 3,658 17 35.7%
Madison County 3,384 3,118 19 27.9%
Champaign County 3,004 2,727 4 17.2%
Macon County 2,970 2,332 18 47%
Vermilion County 2,443 1,907 32 61.7%
McLean County 2,062 1,843 10 17.3%
Jackson County 1,912 1,387 7 26.5%
DeKalb County 1,747 1,710 10 25.2%
Tazewell County 1,667 1,555 23 37%
McHenry County 1,632 1,390 16 24.1%
Kankakee County 1,623 1,074 19 29.3%
LaSalle County 1,585 1,474 6 39.2%
Williamson County 1,545 1,401 6 46.1%
Knox County 1,246 1,130 5 35%
Adams County 1,146 989 6 43.6%
Coles County 1,050 912 15 28.1%
Stephenson County 838 699 20 31.4%
McDonough County 805 716 22 32.1%
Whiteside County 802 622 8 31.6%
Jefferson County 797 672 9 40.6%
Franklin County 793 752 10 38%
Morgan County 779 720 4 53.9%
Fulton County 755 722 3 59%
Marion County 727 669 6 37.3%
Henry County 690 651 6 45.4%
Christian County 681 588 6 46.9%
Boone County 641 459 36 33.5%
Saline County 569 526 2 43%
Ogle County 534 488 6 27.8%
Livingston County 494 414 6 37.6%
Woodford County 490 386 11 57.8%
Effingham County 472 428 5 44.6%
Lee County 420 366 12 24.7%
Jersey County 418 370 6 65.8%
Macoupin County 407 366 10 27.5%
Logan County 403 318 5 27.4%
Kendall County 394 347 39 21.8%
Grundy County 386 346 7 25%
Bureau County 379 354 8 28.1%
Warren County 373 349 5 53%
Union County 358 306 2 33.6%
Perry County 345 283 6 29.7%
Massac County 338 325 47 68.7%
Montgomery County 322 295 13 29.3%
Edgar County 299 268 8 29.4%
Menard County 288 216 11 67.6%
Wayne County 285 210 38 37.1%
Randolph County 272 252 16 28%
Pike County 260 193 36 23.4%
De Witt County 257 244 12 42.2%
Alexander County 244 131 no data 121.3%
Clinton County 232 210 11 28.3%
Bond County 231 199 5 28.3%
Richland County 227 178 5 38.6%
Lawrence County 213 192 2 52.8%
Clay County 211 204 6 44.4%
Shelby County 179 156 3 25.8%
Mason County 169 145 8 37.3%
Wabash County 167 159 4 29.7%
Pulaski County 161 140 4 55.8%
Jo Daviess County 160 121 6 14.9%
White County 152 143 5 27%
Hardin County 147 139 5 36.1%
Johnson County 139 121 7 32.2%
Greene County 137 121 no data 27.7%
Brown County 128 119 6 46.5%
Gallatin County 123 119 10 42.5%
Pope County 122 113 2 44%
Clark County 119 108 1 19.4%
Scott County 117 99 7 68.4%
Ford County 111 109 12 16.1%
Carroll County 103 94 18 23.7%
Cass County 102 95 5 25.6%
Mercer County 100 82 4 18.9%
Cumberland County 94 91 1 50.4%
Hancock County 90 76 4 13.8%
Hamilton County 78 78 11 26.7%
Edwards County 75 72 2 28.5%
Piatt County 68 65 3 17.4%
Jasper County 66 53 no data 31.2%
Marshall County 66 60 no data 13.8%
Douglas County 54 38 10 9.7%
Moultrie County 52 41 9 17.3%
Crawford County 45 36 7 5.2%
Calhoun County 43 39 16 62.2%
Fayette County 42 32 12 6.4%
Iroquois County 41 39 no data 5%
Henderson County 29 27 no data 37.1%
Stark County 28 24 no data 10.6%
Schuyler County 19 17 no data 12.5%
Washington County 13 11 2 5.6%
Monroe County 6 0 no data no data

The wait is the time households who were admitted spent waiting. Everyone still on a list is absent from HUD's file entirely, so the real wait is longer than any figure here. Need is from HUD CHAS (2017-2021 ACS); supply is from the HUD Picture file (2025). See the methodology.


Generated 2026-07-13 02:52 UTC

Source: HUD Picture of Subsidized Households (2025 snapshot, 2009-2025 trend) joined to HUD CHAS 2017-2021 ACS for the eligible-household denominator