County / FIPS 17067
Hancock County
Illinois
Hancock County runs 16 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 1 Medicare-certified hospital reporting to CMS, of which 1 carry an overall star rating.
At a glance
Public schools
16
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
1
Land area
794
Hancock County in numbers
American Community Survey five-year estimates ending 2024. These are sample estimates, not a count — each carries a margin of error, and where that margin is too wide to mean anything the figure is withheld rather than printed.
Population
17,281
Median household income
$65,865
Poverty rate
12.3%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$113,800
Median gross rent
$782
Bachelor's degree or higher
25.1%
One figure is withheld above. The Census Bureau publishes them, but with a margin of error wider than 30% of the value — which for a place this size means the survey sampled too few households to say. They are left out rather than shown with a caveat nobody reads.
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Hancock County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$149.2M
Per resident
$8,469
Change since FY2021
−2%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $152M |
| 2022 | $140M |
| 2023 | $126M |
| 2024 | $128M |
| 2025 | $149M |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. Hancock County ranks 1949th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Hancock County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Memorial Hospital | Carthage |
Public schools in Hancock County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carthage Middle School | Carthage ESD 317 | Carthage | 171 |
| Carthage Primary School | Carthage ESD 317 | Carthage | 245 |
| Dallas City Elem School | Dallas ESD 327 | Dallas City | 169 |
| Hamilton Elementary School | Hamilton CCSD 328 | Hamilton | 419 |
| Hamilton High School | Hamilton CCSD 328 | Hamilton | 170 |
| Illini West High School | Illini West H S Dist 307 | Carthage | 342 |
| La Harpe Elementary School | La Harpe CSD 347 | La Harpe | 200 |
| Nauvoo Elem School | Nauvoo-Colusa CUSD 325 | Nauvoo | 203 |
| Southeastern Elementary School | Southeastern CUSD 337 | Bowen | 251 |
| Southeastern Jr/Sr High School | Southeastern CUSD 337 | Augusta | 203 |
| Warsaw Elem School | Warsaw CUSD 316 | Warsaw | 211 |
| Warsaw Sr High School | Warsaw CUSD 316 | Warsaw | 207 |
| Royals Academy Carthage | Hancck/Fultn/Schuylr/Mcdonogh Roe | Carthage | — |
| Wcisec Hs Md | West Central Il Spec Educ Coop | Carthage | — |
| La Harpe Junior High School | La Harpe CSD 347 | La Harpe | — |
| Royals Rssp Carthage | Hancck/Fultn/Schuylr/Mcdonogh Roe | Carthage | — |