Economic Data

On these pages you'll find demographics, economics, lifestyle attributes, traffic counts, and retail area specific information for Rock Island. In addition, information about the Quad City region is included, because it's difficult to look at Rock Island without considering the entire region.

Recently salary.com ranked Rock Island as #6 on the list of the salary value index - noting that a paycheck goes further in Rock Island.

Salary.com found the top US metro areas for building personal net worth.  It looked at how the cost of living compared to the salary range for the employees in 188 metro areas with 250,000 or more residents. Basic living expenses, including property value and the pricing of such things as food and energy, along with unemployment rates were correlated.