Custer Park vs Plum Valley

A side-by-side comparison of Custer Park and Plum Valley: population, income, housing, and more.

Custer Park and Plum Valley are places in Illinois. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Plum Valley has the higher population (542 vs 426 in Custer Park). Plum Valley has the higher median household income ($213,084 vs $173,274 in Custer Park). Plum Valley has the higher median home value ($268,600 vs $218,800 in Custer Park).

Population, income & housing

	Custer Park	Plum Valley
Population	426	542
Median age	29.0 yrs	47.1 yrs
Median household income	$173,274	$213,084
Median home value	$218,800	$268,600
Housing units	87	194
Homeownership rate	31.0%	79.9%
Bachelor's degree or higher	2.0%	56.2%
Unemployment rate	0.0%	3.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Custer Park	Plum Valley
Population	497 → 426 (-14.3%)	379 → 542 (+43.0%)
Median household income	$88,393 → $173,274 (+96.0%)	$179,375 → $213,084 (+18.8%)
Median home value	$207,100 → $218,800 (+5.6%)	$281,300 → $268,600 (-4.5%)

Custer Park

Population

497426

Median household income

$88,393$173,274

Median home value

$207,100$218,800

Plum Valley

Population

379542

Median household income

$179,375$213,084

Median home value

$281,300$268,600

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Custer Park	Plum Valley
Under 5	0.0%	2.6%
5 to 17	29.8%	29.2%
18 to 24	0.0%	0.0%
25 to 34	34.5%	5.7%
35 to 44	0.0%	5.0%
45 to 54	14.1%	33.4%
55 to 64	17.6%	3.1%
65 to 74	1.4%	9.4%
75 and over	2.6%	11.6%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Custer Park	Plum Valley
White (non-Hispanic)	79.1%	14.9%
Black or African American	0.0%	69.7%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	6.8%
Two or more races	0.0%	8.5%
Hispanic or Latino	20.9%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Custer Park	Plum Valley
No high school diploma	0.0%	2.2%
High school graduate	88.6%	18.9%
Some college or associate's	9.4%	22.7%
Bachelor's degree	2.0%	22.2%
Graduate or professional degree	0.0%	34.1%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Custer Park	Plum Valley
Drove alone	98.6%	88.5%
Carpooled	0.0%	0.0%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	1.4%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	0.0%	11.5%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Custer Park	Plum Valley
1-unit, detached	100.0%	100.0%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Custer Park	Plum Valley
Poverty rate	4.7%	1.5%
Average household size	4.90	2.79
Mean commute (minutes)	—	53
Median year structure built	1974	1980