Chicago community area 25

Austin

City	Chicago, Cook County
Corridors	Roosevelt/Cicero Armitage Northwest
ZIP codes	60644, 60651, 60639, 60707
Data as of	CMAP 2026 release

Austin (filled), neighbouring community areas, City industrial corridors (tinted pine, darker where they cross Austin) and intermodal rail ramps (squares).

Austin is Chicago community area 25. Parts of 3 City industrial corridors fall inside it, led by Roosevelt/Cicero (about 265 acres). Industrial land is 472 acres, 10.3% of the area, 5th of the 59 community areas on this site. LEHD counted 13,171 jobs located here in 2023; the 2020 Census counted 96,557 residents. The nearest intermodal rail ramp is Cicero, 3.8 mi from the area's centre.

472

Industrial acres, 10.3% of land (2023)^[1]

13,171

Jobs located here (LEHD 2023)^[1]

96,557

Residents, 2020 Census^[1]

City industrial corridors inside^[3]

3.8 mi

To Cicero rail ramp^[5]

Industrial corridors inside Austin
Corridor	Acres inside Austin
Roosevelt/Cicero	265
Armitage	246
Northwest	243

Acres computed from the overlap of the City's corridor and community-area boundaries.

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What sets Austin apart

Transport, utility and right-of-way land (1,471 acres) outweighs industrial land here, a pattern you see where rail yards, expressways or the river take up much of the map.

Austin has 96,557 residents and 13,171 jobs, so loading docks here tend to sit close to homes. Street access and loading hours can matter as much as count when a truck is booked.

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Sources

CMAP Community Data Snapshots 2026. Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning. Population from the 2020 Census (P.L. 94-171); jobs located in the place from LEHD 2023 (primary jobs); private-sector jobs from IDES Where Workers Work 2025; land use from the CMAP 2023 Land Use Inventory; industrial equalized assessed value from the Illinois Department of Revenue, 2024.
City of Chicago: Boundaries, Community Areas. Chicago Data Portal.
City of Chicago: Boundaries, Industrial Corridors (current). Chicago Data Portal, January 2013 corridor boundaries (data table 3tu3-iesz). The City has since revised parts of some corridors under its Industrial Corridor Modernization work; this map shows the published dataset.
City of Chicago: Boundaries, ZIP Codes. Chicago Data Portal. A ZIP is listed for a community area when it covers at least 10% of the area.
BTS National Transportation Atlas Database: Intermodal Freight Facilities, Rail TOFC/COFC. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, compiled 2018 and updated July 2022. Distances are straight-line miles from the place's internal point to the facility point.
Natural Earth 1:10m lakes. Lake Michigan outline for the maps. Public domain.

Last reviewed 2026-10-27. Not legal advice and not a price quote. See how the figures are built.