Illinois · Market data
Lake County, IL supports 29 taxi and limousine businesses across 718,604 residents. Below: how those operators break down by size, how the market compares with its state and the country, and what the sector pays — all from the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns.
Source: United States Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023.
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| Measure | Lake County |
|---|---|
| County | Lake County, IL |
| State | Illinois |
| Residents (Census 2024 estimate) | 718,604 |
| Taxi and limousine establishments | 29 |
| Taxi and limousine employeesCensus noise flag G — approximate. | 44 |
| Taxi and limousine annual payroll | $1.0m |
| Taxi and ridesharing establishments | 7 |
| Taxi and ridesharing employeesCensus noise flag G — approximate. | 9 |
| Taxi and ridesharing annual payroll | $226,000 |
| Limousine establishments | 22 |
| Limousine employeesCensus noise flag G — approximate. | 35 |
| Limousine annual payroll | $783,000 |
| Operators with 1-4 employees | 28 |
| Operators per 100,000 residentsderived29 establishments ÷ 718,604 residents × 100,000. | 4.04 |
| Share of operators with fewer than 5 employeesderived28 of 29 establishments. | 96.6% |
| Annual payroll per employeederived$1.0m payroll ÷ 44 employees. | $22,932 |
| Taxi share of taxi-plus-limousine operatorsderived7 taxi ÷ 29 taxi and limousine establishments. | 24.1% |
| Rank among published US county marketsderivedBy taxi and limousine establishments. | 47 of 348 |
Source: United States Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023. About County Business Patterns.
Lake County, IL has 29 taxi and limousine businesses in the 2023 County Business Patterns, employing about 44 people — 7 in taxi and ridesharing services and 22 in limousine service.
A market of this size is big enough that customers have alternatives and small enough that reputation travels quickly.
96.6 per cent of operators in Lake County, IL employ fewer than five people, against a median of 67.1 per cent across the 348 published county markets.
Nearly every operator here employs fewer than five people. That is an owner-driver market: the person taking the booking is often the person driving, so software that needs a dedicated dispatcher to sit in front of it does not fit.
Lake County, IL has 4.04 taxi and limousine businesses per 100,000 residents, against a national median of 2.16.
Operators per head sit above the national midpoint, so local demand supports more businesses than population alone would suggest.
Within Illinois the median is 3.46 per 100,000, so this county is denser than its state norm.
Annual payroll works out at about $22,932 per employee across the sector in Lake County, IL.
A figure that low usually reflects heavy part-time and split-shift working rather than low hourly rates, which makes accurate shift and per-driver accounting the difference between knowing your margin and guessing it.
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Closest by operator count, weighted towards the same state.
| County | Operators | Per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Will County, IL | 28 | 3.95 |
| Riverside County, CA | 30 | 1.19 |
| Honolulu County, HI | 30 | 3.00 |
| Bristol County, MA | 30 | 5.10 |
| Passaic County, NJ | 30 | 5.70 |
| Union County, NJ | 30 | 5.05 |
| Sacramento County, CA | 28 | 1.74 |
| San Bernardino County, CA | 28 | 1.26 |
| Mecklenburg County, NC | 28 | 2.32 |
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