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Insurance agencies in Bureau County, IL
How Bureau County, IL compares with other counties and the U.S. for insurance agencies: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 16 out of 100: Low
Ranked #2,159 of 2,272 scored counties
#50 of 87 scored counties in Illinois
- Listings
- 24
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 20
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $23.3M
- On vehicle insurance · $1,664 a household
- Spending per listing
- $973K
- 23% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 17.1
- 10% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 32,510
- −2.1% since 2020
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What this means
For insurance agencies, Bureau County has a Groundwork market score of 16 (low): #2,159 of 2,272 scored counties and #50 of 87 scored counties in Illinois. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Household spending on vehicle insurance in Bureau County comes to about $23.3M a year: $1,664 per household, 15% below the U.S. average. That is about $973K of household spending for each agency on map listings, 23% below the U.S. figure of $1.3M.
Bureau County has 24 insurance agencies on map listings as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations, against 21% across the U.S. That is 17.1 per 10,000 households, 10% above the U.S. rate of 15.6.
In 2023, official counts showed 20 businesses with payroll in Bureau County classed as insurance agencies and brokerages. That is one for every 701 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Bureau County declined 2.1%, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How Bureau County compares
The same measures for Illinois and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all vehicle insurance by the insurance agencies 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 | Bureau County | Illinois | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 17.1 | 18.2 | 15.6 |
| Spending per listing | $973K | $795K | $1.3M |
| Households per official establishment | 701 | 887 | 966 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | −7.0% | −1.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −2.1% | −0.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on vehicle insurance | $1,664 | $1,450 | $1,957 |
| Median household income | $69,257 | $83,390 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 16 | 11 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 19 → 20
- Employees, 2023
- 49
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $3.4M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 240 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 19The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in Bureau 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 Bureau County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 32,510−2.1% since 2020
- Households
- 14,028
- Median age
- 44.2
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 76%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 869 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 38
- Median household income
- $69,257+20.6% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $87,255
- Median home value
- $126,900
- Jobs located here
- 10,627
- Daytime population
- 28,480Residents 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Kendall County, IL | 59 | 56 | 12.3 | $1.5M | +9.9% | #816 of 2,272 |
| 2Boone County, IL | 48 | 21 | 10.8 | $1.7M | +0.4% | #1,169 of 2,272 |
| 3Will County, IL | 40 | 372 | 15.2 | $1.2M | +2.2% | #1,464 of 2,272 |
| 4DeKalb County, IL | 39 | 47 | 11.9 | $1.3M | +1.5% | #1,499 of 2,272 |
| 5Piatt County, IL | 36 | 10 | 14.4 | $1.3M | +0.6% | #1,598 of 2,272 |
| 6Mercer County, IL | 35 | 7 | 10.7 | $1.8M | −2.6% | #1,630 of 2,272 |
| 7Grundy County, IL | 35 | 35 | 17.0 | $1.1M | +2.9% | #1,654 of 2,272 |
| 8McHenry County, IL | 35 | 209 | 17.8 | $1M | +2.5% | #1,660 of 2,272 |
| 9Menard County, IL | 34 | 5 | 9.6 | $1.8M | −3.3% | #1,667 of 2,272 |
| 10Jo Daviess County, IL | 33 | 11 | 10.6 | $1.6M | −2.2% | #1,698 of 2,272 |
| 50Bureau County, IL | 16 | 24 | 17.1 | $973K | −2.1% | #2,159 of 2,272 |
Other business types in Bureau County
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Questions
How many insurance agencies are in Bureau County, IL?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 24 insurance agencies in Bureau County. None of them are chain locations. The listings count insurance agencies. Official counts show 20 businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in 2023.
How much do households in Bureau County, IL spend on vehicle insurance?
About $23.3M a year, or $1,664 per household. That is 15% below the U.S. average (an index of 85, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 24 insurance agencies on map listings, it comes to $973K per agency. It is estimated from the incomes of the 14,028 households in Bureau County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Bureau County, IL compare with the U.S. for insurance agencies?
Bureau County has 17.1 insurance agencies per 10,000 households, 10% above the U.S. rate of 15.6. Spending per agency is $973K, 23% below the U.S. figure of $1.3M. At the U.S. ratio of insurance agencies to household spending, Bureau County would have about 19, against 24 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 701 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S.
How fast is Bureau County, IL growing?
Population estimates put Bureau County at 32,510 people in 2025, down 2.1% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 14,028 households. Median household income in Bureau County is $69,257, 14% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 20.6%, 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. Bureau County scores 16 for insurance agencies (low), #2,159 of 2,272 scored counties.
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