1. Start with the geography you actually serve
Mount Zion village is recorded in the 2020–2024 ACS five-year data with an estimated population of 5,660 and a margin of error of 539. The recorded county relationship is Macon County. Those are geographic facts, not evidence of search demand, lead volume, case mix or marketing performance. Your firm may serve clients inside the village, elsewhere in Macon County, or across a broader area, but attribution should preserve the distinction between those places rather than collapsing every inquiry into “local.”
Recommended approach
Before reviewing attribution, define the geographic labels that matter to your firm. Decide whether you need to distinguish Mount Zion from other Macon County locations, Illinois-wide inquiries, or matters originating outside the county. Then ask how a journey record would support that analysis without treating population as a proxy for demand.
