Home age in ZIP 62701, Springfield, IL: median built 1970

Home age is not roof age, and the Census does not record replacements. ZIP 62701 in Springfield, IL: median home built 1970; 95.9% of homes (798) are older than 25 years and 2.4% (20) were built since 2010, out of 832 homes.

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2019 to 2023 (5-year estimates), retrieved October 9, 2026. Area = Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area 62701.

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Share of homes in ZIP 62701 by decade builtColumns from the pre-1940 decade on the left to 2020 and later on the right. pre-1940 16.1 percent; 1940s 0.1 percent; 1950s 9.5 percent; 1960s 23.4 percent; 1970s 21.9 percent; 1980s 21.4 percent; 1990s 3.5 percent; 2000s 1.7 percent; 2010s 2.4 percent; 2020+ 0 percentpre-1940: 134 homes, 16.1%16.1%pre-1940Sangamon County: 16.0%1940s: 1 homes, 0.1%0.1%1940sSangamon County: 6.3%1950s: 79 homes, 9.5%9.5%1950sSangamon County: 10.4%1960s: 195 homes, 23.4%23.4%1960sSangamon County: 11.9%1970s: 182 homes, 21.9%21.9%1970sSangamon County: 18.5%1980s: 178 homes, 21.4%21.4%1980sSangamon County: 9.2%1990s: 29 homes, 3.5%3.5%1990sSangamon County: 12.8%2000s: 14 homes, 1.7%1.7%2000sSangamon County: 9.2%2010s: 20 homes, 2.4%2.4%2010sSangamon County: 5.6%2020+: 0 homes, 0.0%0%2020+Sangamon County: 0.1%Built 1999 or earlier: 95.9% of homes (798)ZIP 62701, built before 2000built 2000 or laterSangamon County

Share of the 832 housing units in the ZIP, by decade built. The red marks are Sangamon 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 62701 next to Springfield and Sangamon County

IndicatorZIP 62701SpringfieldSangamon CountyRank among 4 ZIPs of Springfield on this site
Housing units83257,22093,1514th of 4 largest
Median year built1970197119734th of 4 oldest
Built before 198071%66.2%63.1%
Built before 200095.9%no data85.1%2nd of 4 highest share
Built since 20102.4%no data5.7%
Owner-occupied homes1.9%63.4%70.6%4th of 4 highest share
Single-family units1.3%71.7%no data
Median home valueno data$155,200$170,300
Median household income$32,444 (+/- $11,088)$65,537no data4th of 4 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 62701

BuiltShare of Sangamon CountyShare of ZIPHomes in ZIP 62701
2020+0.1%0.0%0
2010s5.6%2.4%20
2000s9.2%1.7%14
1990s12.8%3.5%29
1980s9.2%21.4%178
1970s18.5%21.9%182
1960s11.9%23.4%195
1950s10.4%9.5%79
1940s6.3%0.1%1
pre-194016.0%16.1%134

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 62701

ZIP 62701 has 832 housing units: 798 (95.9%) were built before 2000, 20 (2.4%) in 2010 or later, and 195 (23.4%) in the 1960s, its largest era. The median year built is 1970 (Springfield: 1971), so 1 years older than the city.

Housing mix and money, from the same survey: 1.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied; 1.3% of units are single-family houses; median household income is $32,444, give or take $11,088; the ZIP holds 1.5% of the housing units the Census counts in Springfield, 832 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, 769 units (92.4%, built before 1990) would be past the 30-year top of the usual asphalt-shingle range, 29 (3.5%, the 1990s) would mostly sit past it, 14 (1.7%, the 2000s) would mostly be inside the 20 to 30 year window and 20 (2.4%, 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 62701

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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–of homes in ZIP 62701 are older
–vs. the ZIP median year built

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 62701 among Springfield’s ZIP areas

Map of ZIP 62701 and nearby ZIP areas, shaded by the share of homes built before 2000ZIP 62704: 20,706 homes, 97.1% built before 2000, median year 196662704ZIP 62702: 17,083 homes, 95.2% built before 2000, median year 196462702ZIP 62703: 14,320 homes, 95.1% built before 2000, median year 195862703ZIP 62701: 832 homes, 95.9% built before 2000, median year 197062701
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  • Dot size = housing units. Red ring = ZIP 62701. Click a dot to open that ZIP.

Closest ZIP areas

ZIPMilesMedian builtPre-2000
627021.7 N196495.2%
627042.6 SW196697.1%
627032.8 S195895.1%

Distance is between Census ZIP centres.

Storm backdrop: Sangamon County

A ZIP is too small for its own hail record, so this is the county. FEMA’s National Risk Index rates Sangamon County Relatively Moderate overall (91.7 of 100), Relatively High for hail (95.6), Relatively High for strong wind (86.4) and Relatively High for tornado (97.1). NOAA logged 143 hail reports in the county, on 34 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 62701: Decatur, IL (37 miles), Bloomington, IL (59 miles), Peoria, IL (62 miles).

Questions

How old are the homes in ZIP 62701?

Of the 832 housing units, 591 (71%) were built before 1980, 798 (95.9%) before 2000 and 20 (2.4%) from 2010 on (Census ACS 2019 to 2023, survey estimate).

Does a house's age tell me how old its roof is in 62701?

No. ACS records the year the structure was built, not the year the roof was last replaced. With 591 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 3 closest ZIP areas we cover, 62704 (2.6 miles SW) has the largest share built before 2000, 97.1%, against 95.9% in 62701.

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 11 ZIP-specific figures above differ from ZIP to ZIP.

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