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Funeral homes in Bond County, IL
The funeral homes in Bond County, IL, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other counties.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 36 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #1,085 of 1,472 scored counties
#33 of 67 scored counties in Illinois
- Listings
- 5
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $1M
- On funerals · $166 a household
- Spending per listing
- $205K
- 70% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 8.1
- 3.9 times the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 16,959
- +0.6% since 2020
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What this means
Households in Bond County spend about $1M a year on funerals, or $166 per household, 17% above the U.S. average. Spread across 5 funeral homes, that is $205K per home, 70% below the U.S. figure of $679K.
Bond County has 5 funeral homes on map listings as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations, against 10% across the U.S. That comes to 8.1 for every 10,000 households, 3.9 times the U.S. rate of 2.1.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for funeral homes and funeral services in Bond County, since they leave out counts under 3. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $132K has gone to businesses classed as funeral homes and funeral services in Bond County.
Population estimates put the population change in Bond County from 2020 to 2025 at +0.6%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). Bond County scores 36 (lower middle) on the Groundwork market score for funeral homes, ranking #1,085 of 1,472 scored counties and #33 of 67 scored counties in Illinois.
How Bond County compares
The same measures for Illinois and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all funerals by the funeral homes counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Bond County | Illinois | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 8.1 | 2.7 | 2.1 |
| Spending per listing | $205K | $514K | $679K |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 6,779 | 8,510 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | −4.2% | −1.7% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +0.6% | −0.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on funerals | $166 | $140 | $143 |
| Median household income | $65,959 | $83,390 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 36 | 30 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- n/a
- Employees, 2023
- n/a
- Annual payroll, 2023
- n/a
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 50 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 2The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $132K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as funeral homes and funeral services in Bond County, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in Bond County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 16,959+0.6% since 2020
- Households
- 6,147
- Median age
- 41.1
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 77%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 380 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 44
- Median household income
- $65,959+15.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $90,080
- Median home value
- $145,700
- Jobs located here
- 4,456
- Daytime population
- 14,699Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Illinois
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Kane County, IL | 70 | 26 | 1.4 | $1M | +1.8% | #230 of 1,472 |
| 2DuPage County, IL | 67 | 55 | 1.6 | $945K | +0.3% | #300 of 1,472 |
| 3Kendall County, IL | 64 | 8 | 1.8 | $647K | +9.9% | #384 of 1,472 |
| 4Lake County, IL | 63 | 47 | 1.8 | $790K | +0.8% | #398 of 1,472 |
| 5Will County, IL | 58 | 52 | 2.1 | $647K | +2.2% | #517 of 1,472 |
| 6Winnebago County, IL | 57 | 28 | 2.4 | $616K | −0.4% | #537 of 1,472 |
| 7McHenry County, IL | 57 | 27 | 2.3 | $609K | +2.5% | #539 of 1,472 |
| 8McLean County, IL | 55 | 12 | 1.7 | $681K | +0.1% | #576 of 1,472 |
| 9Tazewell County, IL | 53 | 17 | 3.1 | $497K | −0.9% | #636 of 1,472 |
| 10Knox County, IL | 52 | 6 | 2.9 | $559K | −4.1% | #652 of 1,472 |
| 33Bond County, IL | 36 | 5 | 8.1 | $205K | +0.6% | #1,085 of 1,472 |
Other business types in Bond County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Groceries and convenience
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Questions
How many funeral homes are in Bond County, IL?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 5 funeral homes in Bond County. None of them are chain locations. The listings count funeral homes, mortuaries and cremation services. No official count is published for funeral homes and funeral services in Bond County: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in Bond County, IL spend on funerals?
About $1M a year, or $166 per household. That is 17% above the U.S. average (an index of 117, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 5 funeral homes on map listings, it comes to $205K per home. It is estimated from the incomes of the 6,147 households in Bond County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Bond County, IL compare with the U.S. for funeral homes?
Bond County has 8.1 funeral homes per 10,000 households, 3.9 times the U.S. rate of 2.1. Spending per home is $205K, 70% below the U.S. figure of $679K. At the U.S. ratio of funeral homes to household spending, Bond County would have about 2, against 5 on map listings.
How fast is Bond County, IL growing?
Population estimates put Bond County at 16,959 people in 2025, up 0.6% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 6,147 households. The median household income in Bond County is $65,959 a year, 18% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 15.1% from the 2015–2019 survey, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. Bond County scores 36 for funeral homes (lower middle), #1,085 of 1,472 scored counties.
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