Machesney Park vs Rockford

A side-by-side comparison of Machesney Park and Rockford: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Rockford has the higher population (147,649 vs 22,744 in Machesney Park). Machesney Park has the higher median household income ($74,244 vs $53,328 in Rockford). Machesney Park has the higher median home value ($162,500 vs $120,900 in Rockford).

Population, income & housing

	Machesney Park	Rockford
Population	22,744	147,649
Median age	40.5 yrs	37.5 yrs
Median household income	$74,244	$53,328
Median home value	$162,500	$120,900
Median gross rent	$1,109	$954
Housing units	9,125	68,027
Homeownership rate	80.5%	53.8%
Bachelor's degree or higher	18.1%	23.2%
Unemployment rate	6.3%	8.6%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Machesney Park	Rockford
Population	22,817 → 22,744 (-0.3%)	147,070 → 147,649 (+0.4%)
Median household income	$63,662 → $74,244 (+16.6%)	$44,252 → $53,328 (+20.5%)
Median home value	$120,700 → $162,500 (+34.6%)	$91,600 → $120,900 (+32.0%)
Median gross rent	$956 → $1,109 (+16.0%)	$772 → $954 (+23.6%)

Machesney Park

Population

22,81722,744

Median household income

$63,662$74,244

Median home value

$120,700$162,500

Median gross rent

$956$1,109

Rockford

Population

147,070147,649

Median household income

$44,252$53,328

Median home value

$91,600$120,900

Median gross rent

$772$954

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Machesney Park	Rockford
Under 5	5.4%	6.5%
5 to 17	17.5%	17.9%
18 to 24	8.9%	8.8%
25 to 34	10.5%	13.6%
35 to 44	12.7%	11.6%
45 to 54	14.4%	12.0%
55 to 64	13.1%	12.4%
65 to 74	11.8%	9.6%
75 and over	5.7%	7.6%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Machesney Park	Rockford
White (non-Hispanic)	80.5%	50.1%
Black or African American	2.0%	21.1%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	1.8%	3.6%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.4%	0.3%
Two or more races	4.4%	4.1%
Hispanic or Latino	10.8%	20.6%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Machesney Park	Rockford
No high school diploma	8.9%	15.1%
High school graduate	37.1%	30.1%
Some college or associate's	35.9%	31.6%
Bachelor's degree	13.2%	14.9%
Graduate or professional degree	4.9%	8.4%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Machesney Park	Rockford
Drove alone	84.0%	77.2%
Carpooled	6.7%	11.0%
Public transit	0.0%	1.0%
Walked	1.1%	1.3%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.2%
Worked from home	7.7%	7.9%
Other means	0.5%	1.4%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Machesney Park	Rockford
1-unit, detached	88.4%	60.2%
1-unit, attached	1.4%	4.3%
2 to 4 units	5.3%	17.8%
5 to 19 units	3.3%	9.6%
20 or more units	0.6%	7.3%
Mobile home & other	1.1%	0.6%

Poverty & households

	Machesney Park	Rockford
Poverty rate	13.1%	21.9%
Average household size	2.65	2.34
Mean commute (minutes)	22	21
Median year structure built	1977	1962