Maywood vs Rolling Meadows

A side-by-side comparison of Maywood and Rolling Meadows: population, income, housing, and more.

Maywood and Rolling Meadows are places in Illinois. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Rolling Meadows has the higher population (23,981 vs 23,173 in Maywood). Rolling Meadows has the higher median household income ($100,424 vs $66,498 in Maywood). Rolling Meadows has the higher median home value ($299,700 vs $212,600 in Maywood).

Population, income & housing

	Maywood	Rolling Meadows
Population	23,173	23,981
Median age	35.1 yrs	38.5 yrs
Median household income	$66,498	$100,424
Median home value	$212,600	$299,700
Median gross rent	$1,203	$1,563
Housing units	8,385	9,637
Homeownership rate	60.5%	73.2%
Bachelor's degree or higher	16.7%	40.5%
Unemployment rate	7.8%	4.6%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Maywood	Rolling Meadows
Population	23,578 → 23,173 (-1.7%)	23,219 → 23,981 (+3.3%)
Median household income	$50,176 → $66,498 (+32.5%)	$74,134 → $100,424 (+35.5%)
Median home value	$151,300 → $212,600 (+40.5%)	$241,200 → $299,700 (+24.3%)
Median gross rent	$965 → $1,203 (+24.7%)	$1,378 → $1,563 (+13.4%)

Maywood

Population

23,57823,173

Median household income

$50,176$66,498

Median home value

$151,300$212,600

Median gross rent

$965$1,203

Rolling Meadows

Population

23,21923,981

Median household income

$74,134$100,424

Median home value

$241,200$299,700

Median gross rent

$1,378$1,563

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Maywood	Rolling Meadows
Under 5	5.6%	7.6%
5 to 17	20.6%	15.3%
18 to 24	11.0%	7.9%
25 to 34	12.8%	13.6%
35 to 44	13.3%	14.3%
45 to 54	13.4%	12.4%
55 to 64	10.6%	13.7%
65 to 74	7.1%	9.4%
75 and over	5.7%	5.5%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Maywood	Rolling Meadows
White (non-Hispanic)	5.7%	53.8%
Black or African American	57.5%	3.4%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.6%	10.3%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.3%	0.5%
Two or more races	2.5%	2.7%
Hispanic or Latino	33.4%	29.3%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Maywood	Rolling Meadows
No high school diploma	20.8%	13.0%
High school graduate	34.5%	24.4%
Some college or associate's	27.9%	22.2%
Bachelor's degree	9.9%	26.8%
Graduate or professional degree	6.8%	13.7%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Maywood	Rolling Meadows
Drove alone	69.6%	70.8%
Carpooled	10.4%	9.8%
Public transit	5.8%	2.3%
Walked	2.3%	2.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.2%
Worked from home	11.8%	13.5%
Other means	0.1%	1.4%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Maywood	Rolling Meadows
1-unit, detached	65.0%	56.4%
1-unit, attached	1.3%	8.2%
2 to 4 units	21.2%	5.2%
5 to 19 units	8.5%	12.7%
20 or more units	3.8%	17.0%
Mobile home & other	0.2%	0.5%

Poverty & households

	Maywood	Rolling Meadows
Poverty rate	15.3%	6.8%
Average household size	3.14	2.61
Mean commute (minutes)	33	26
Median year structure built	1938	1972