Population & Demographics
Mount Prospect, IL
Mount Prospect is home to 55,472 people. Explore its demographics, housing, and economy — plus how its 27,918 resident workers commute each day.
55,472 residents
Median age 41.1 · U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year (2024).
Mount Prospect population & demographics
Who lives in Mount Prospect — population, age, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.
Race & ethnicity in Mount Prospect
How Mount Prospect breaks down by race and ethnicity — each bar is that group’s share of the population, from the U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year (2024).
Race across Mount Prospect
Each dot is a group of people, placed in their 2020 Census block and colored by race or ethnicity — the pattern shows where groups live across Mount Prospect.
These figures are for Mount Prospect proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.
How Mount Prospect commutes
Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.
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How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.
Mount Prospect
27,918 commutes, one dot at a time
Mount Prospect
Where 27,918 workers commute
Where residents work
Top destinations for people who live in Mount Prospect, by worker count.
Who commutes in
Top origin places for workers who travel into Mount Prospect.
Top industries
The sectors that employ Mount Prospect’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.
Internet options for Mount Prospect
The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.
FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).