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One weak subject stands out against an otherwise good record. With an A overall, Mackinaw Township is better than 87% of U.S. towns and ranks 150th of 767 in Illinois. Its strongest subject is incomes: the median household earns $103K. Health is another plus: CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 77% of the country. At about $200K, a typical home costs 2.8 years of the Peoria metro’s $72K median household income. What counts against it is walkability (C). Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 71% of U.S. towns. The biggest park or preserve is ParkLands Nature Preserve, at 73 acres.
Figures: incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · health, CDC PLACES · home values, Zillow · OpenStreetMap.
Where Mackinaw Township beats most towns.
Where Mackinaw Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Mackinaw Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 496 in 1870, 1,879 in 2020. The archive holds 11 old photos and papers going back to 1933 and 3 maps from 1928 on.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Mackinaw Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.
Ordered by what stands out in Mackinaw Township.
Its widest gap with Illinois is no health insurance: 5.7% of those 18–64 have no health insurance, against 9.9% statewide.
A fifth of Mackinaw Township adults get no exercise outside work, below both Illinois’ towns (23%) and U.S. towns (25%). For adults here, the share who binge drink is 19%. The town does better than the Illinois average on 6 of 32 CDC measures and worse on 1.
| Mackinaw Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 18% | 16% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 23% | 25% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 18% | 19% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 13% | 14% |
| What stands out | Mackinaw Township | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5.7% | 9.9% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 9.8% | 15.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9% | 7.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Public schools: Deer Creek-Mackinaw CUSD 701. Its two schools are below. The 2 public schools in Mackinaw Township teach 725 students between them.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dee-Mack Primary/Jr HighLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–8 | Grades PK–8 | 432 | B+ |
| Dee-Mack High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 293 | B |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IL on state tests and graduation
Most people who work leave Mackinaw Township to do it: just 12% work in town. The town’s average commute comes in at 28 minutes. Half commute less than 17 miles. 7.2% of Mackinaw Township workers do their job from home, against 11% in Illinois’ towns and 11% across U.S. towns.
| Mackinaw Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $103,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 7.2% | 11% | 11% |
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 12% | 8.3% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Expect July afternoons of 85° and January nights of 17°, with about 24 inches of snow a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Nearly a third of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 38% across Illinois. No broad age group is more than 4 points off the Illinois average. Mackinaw Township: 24% of residents are under 18.
| Mackinaw Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 24% | 22% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 32% | 29% | 29% |
47% women, 53% men
About 115 men for every 100 women (the survey’s margin: ±2.9 points). Across Illinois, 50.6% of residents are women.
| Mackinaw Township | IL | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 11.5% | 11.5% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 12.5% | 10.4% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 7.4% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 11.5% | 13.6% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 15.6% | 13.3% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 12.5% | 12.4% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 10.4% | 12.8% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 11.1% | 10% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 7.5% | 7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 3.2% | 9.5% | 10.4% |
| High school | 26.4% | 25.1% | 26% |
| Some college | 26.1% | 19.2% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 12.8% | 8.3% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 21.1% | 22.6% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 10.5% | 15.3% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 4,200, single groups can be off by several points
The trail density for Mackinaw Township comes to 0.1 miles per square mile. Trails run 2.8 miles in 5 parks and preserves.
| Mackinaw Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 5.2% | 3.6% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Mackinaw River State Fish and Wildlife Area | 2.5 mi | 1,434 |
| 2. ParkLands Nature Preserve | — | 73 |
| 3. Westwood Park | — | 10 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Compared with half of U.S. communities, expected storm and flood damage in Mackinaw Township is higher. This Illinois town has had 3 paid flood insurance claims since 1999. FEMA puts 46% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 21% to cold waves.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Mackinaw Township. Close and well known come first.
26 mi Zoo & aquariumWildlife Prairie Park18 mi Zoo & aquariumPeoria Zoo
in town Theme parkSpider Hill
18 mi GardenFell Arboretum
18 mi MuseumAdlai E. Stevenson I HouseWildlife Prairie Park: Katherine Johnson, CC BY 2.0 · Spider Hill: NatFee, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fell Arboretum: Willjay, CC BY 3.0 · Adlai E. Stevenson I House: Nyttend, Public domain
1 within 15 miles of the center of Mackinaw Township
About 5 of every 100 Mackinaw Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Illinois.
Village in Illinois, United States
Mackinaw is a village in Tazewell County, Illinois, United States, and is part of the Peoria, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, Mackinaw had a population of 1,879.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
4 towns share a border with Mackinaw Township.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mackinaw Township | #150 | A | B | — | B+ | A− |
| Deer Creek Township | — | — | C | — | B+ | A− |
| Little Mackinaw Township | — | — | A− | — | B+ | B+ |
| Danvers Township | — | — | C+ | — | B+ | A− |
| Tremont Township | #114 | A | B− | — | A− | A− |
Deer Creek Township, Little Mackinaw Township and Danvers Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Mackinaw Township, Deer Creek Township, Little Mackinaw Township, Danvers Township and Tremont Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Mackinaw Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Mackinaw Township grades A overall, better than 87% of U.S. towns and #150 of 767 in Illinois. It grades A− for health and B+ for schools.
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.
