Home age in ZIP 61602, Peoria, IL: median built 1949

Home age is not roof age, and the Census does not record replacements. ZIP 61602 in Peoria, IL: median home built 1949; 98.3% of homes (799) are older than 25 years and 1.7% (14) were built since 2010, out of 813 homes.

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2019 to 2023 (5-year estimates), retrieved October 9, 2026. Area = Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area 61602.

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Share of homes in ZIP 61602 by decade builtColumns from the pre-1940 decade on the left to 2020 and later on the right. pre-1940 43.7 percent; 1940s 7 percent; 1950s 15.1 percent; 1960s 4.1 percent; 1970s 7.3 percent; 1980s 21.2 percent; 1990s 0 percent; 2000s 0 percent; 2010s 1.7 percent; 2020+ 0 percentpre-1940: 355 homes, 43.7%43.7%pre-1940Peoria County: 21.0%1940s: 57 homes, 7.0%7%1940sPeoria County: 7.2%1950s: 123 homes, 15.1%15.1%1950sPeoria County: 14.0%1960s: 33 homes, 4.1%4.1%1960sPeoria County: 12.8%1970s: 59 homes, 7.3%7.3%1970sPeoria County: 16.4%1980s: 172 homes, 21.2%21.2%1980sPeoria County: 6.1%1990s: 0 homes, 0.0%0%1990sPeoria County: 8.0%2000s: 0 homes, 0.0%0%2000sPeoria County: 10.3%2010s: 14 homes, 1.7%1.7%2010sPeoria County: 4.0%2020+: 0 homes, 0.0%0%2020+Peoria County: 0.3%Built 1999 or earlier: 98.3% of homes (799)ZIP 61602, built before 2000built 2000 or laterPeoria County

Share of the 813 housing units in the ZIP, by decade built. The red marks are Peoria County. This counts houses, not roofs: a roof is replaced several times in the life of a house, and no federal survey records when.

ZIP 61602 next to Peoria and Peoria County

IndicatorZIP 61602PeoriaPeoria CountyRank among 6 ZIPs of Peoria on this site
Housing units81354,52684,9926th of 6 largest
Median year built1949196619663rd of 6 oldest
Built before 198077.1%69.9%71.4%
Built before 200098.3%no data85.5%1st of 6 highest share
Built since 20101.7%no data4.2%
Owner-occupied homes17.1%58.2%67%6th of 6 highest share
Single-family units8.4%67.9%no data
Median home value$222,700 (+/- $33,978)$149,500$152,6001st of 6 highest
Median household income$17,273 (+/- $10,938)$58,716no data6th of 6 highest

City figures are for the Census place, county figures for the county; “no data” means the Census file does not publish that figure. Value and income are survey estimates, the plus-or-minus is the 90% margin of error.

Every decade in ZIP 61602

BuiltShare of Peoria CountyShare of ZIPHomes in ZIP 61602
2020+0.3%0.0%0
2010s4.0%1.7%14
2000s10.3%0.0%0
1990s8.0%0.0%0
1980s6.1%21.2%172
1970s16.4%7.3%59
1960s12.8%4.1%33
1950s14.0%15.1%123
1940s7.2%7.0%57
pre-194021.0%43.7%355

Counts are Census estimates of housing units by year built (table B25034). If a roof had never been replaced, it would be 3 to 6 years old on a house from the 2020s, 17 to 26 on one from the 2000s, 37 to 46 on one from the 1980s and 87 or more on one from before 1940. Most older houses have had at least one replacement, and the Census does not record when.

What the numbers say about ZIP 61602

ZIP 61602 has 813 housing units: 799 (98.3%) were built before 2000, 14 (1.7%) in 2010 or later, and 355 (43.7%) before 1940, its largest era. The median year built is 1949 (Peoria: 1966), so 17 years older than the city.

Housing mix and money, from the same survey: 17.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied; 8.4% of units are single-family houses; the median owner-occupied home is valued at $222,700, give or take $33,978; median household income is $17,273, give or take $10,938; the ZIP holds 1.5% of the housing units the Census counts in Peoria, 813 of them. These are survey estimates with margins of error, and for a small ZIP the margin can be wide.

Reading this for roofs, carefully: the Census records when a house was built, never when its roof was last replaced. If every roof were still the one installed with its house, 799 units (98.3%, built before 1990) would be past the 30-year top of the usual asphalt-shingle range, 0 (0%, the 1990s) would mostly sit past it, 0 (0%, the 2000s) would mostly be inside the 20 to 30 year window and 14 (1.7%, 2010 onward) would be younger than it. Most older roofs have been replaced, so treat these as the pool of houses where an old roof is possible, not as a count of old roofs.

Roof age calculator for ZIP 61602

Enter the year your house was built, and the year the roof was last replaced if you know it. It starts at the median year built for this ZIP. The share of neighbours’ homes older than yours comes from this ZIP’s own decade counts.

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Material ranges are general planning figures (the same ones as on our roof-age page), not warranties. Sun, storms, attic ventilation and installation quality move them. The decade shares assume homes were built evenly within each decade. This is not an inspection: a roofer on the roof decides.

Map: ZIP 61602 among Peoria’s ZIP areas

Map of ZIP 61602 and nearby ZIP areas, shaded by the share of homes built before 2000ZIP 61614: 13,870 homes, 90.3% built before 2000, median year 196961614ZIP 61615: 11,334 homes, 68.2% built before 2000, median year 198661615ZIP 61603: 8,291 homes, 97.1% built before 2000, median year 194261603ZIP 61605: 7,114 homes, 92.3% built before 2000, median year 195261605ZIP 61606: 2,898 homes, 94% built before 2000, median year 193861606ZIP 61602: 813 homes, 98.3% built before 2000, median year 194961602
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  • Dot size = housing units. Red ring = ZIP 61602. Click a dot to open that ZIP.

Closest ZIP areas

ZIPMilesMedian builtPre-2000
616051.5 W195292.3%
616061.5 N193894.0%
616032.6 NE194297.1%
616145.5 N196990.3%
616155.9 NW198668.2%

Distance is between Census ZIP centres.

Storm backdrop: Peoria County

A ZIP is too small for its own hail record, so this is the county. FEMA’s National Risk Index rates Peoria County Relatively Moderate overall (90.7 of 100), Relatively High for hail (95.3), Relatively High for strong wind (95.7) and Relatively High for tornado (95.8). NOAA logged 116 hail reports in the county, on 30 days with hail of 1 inch or more in the full years 2014 to 2025.

FEMA National Risk Index, December 2025 version, county level. This product uses FEMA’s National Risk Index data but is not endorsed by FEMA.

Where to go from here

Other roofing cities near ZIP 61602: Bloomington, IL (35 miles), Springfield, IL (61 miles), Decatur, IL (67 miles).

Questions

How old are the homes in ZIP 61602?

Of the 813 housing units, 627 (77.1%) were built before 1980, 799 (98.3%) before 2000 and 14 (1.7%) from 2010 on (Census ACS 2019 to 2023, survey estimate).

Does a house's age tell me how old its roof is in 61602?

No. ACS records the year the structure was built, not the year the roof was last replaced. With 627 units built before 1980 in this ZIP, many roofs are replacements rather than originals. Ask the seller for permit records or have a roofer inspect the roof.

Which nearby ZIP has the oldest housing?

Of the 5 closest ZIP areas we cover, 61603 (2.6 miles NE) has the largest share built before 2000, 97.1%, against 98.3% in 61602.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates 2019 to 2023, tables B25034 (year structure built), B25035, B25003, B25024, B25077 and B19013, ZIP Code Tabulation Areas; ZIP-to-city assignment from the Census 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file (a ZIP is assigned to a city when more than half of its land area lies inside it). A ZCTA is not a USPS ZIP code: it approximates one and can differ at the edges. Public domain. The 12 ZIP-specific figures above differ from ZIP to ZIP.

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