1. Set the geographic boundary before you design the intake
East Moline is a city in Rock Island County, Illinois. The 2020–2024 ACS five-year estimate records 20,904 residents, with a margin of error of 409. That is a description of the municipality, not evidence of legal demand, search volume, competition, call volume or likely case value. It also does not establish how many website visitors are households, individuals, existing clients or prospective clients. For intake design, the important question is how your firm defines an eligible matter connected to East Moline and the surrounding service area. A resident of East Moline may contact a firm with an office elsewhere in Illinois, and a firm may choose to serve matters beyond the city. Those are business and professional decisions that the intake should reflect.
Recommended approach
Write the service-area rule before choosing questions. Decide whether East Moline is a location to record, a routing condition, an eligibility factor or simply an entry point for a broader Illinois practice. Keep the city, Rock Island County and any other service areas as separate fields. Review the rule with counsel so the video path does not imply representation, eligibility or an attorney-client relationship merely because a visitor completes it.
