Albion, Illinois.
Typical home $124,483 (+1.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$210 (+47%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,985 +2%
- $122,497$124,483 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $10,945 -8%
- $135,427$124,483 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Albion$653
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Albion, IL rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Albion, Edwards County, Illinois
Albion is a city of 1,971 people in Edwards County. Half its households earn more than $56,500 a year and half less, against $60,519 across Edwards County; 28% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Edwards County was 7.0% in August 2026, and the county had 12.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Albion is a small city and the seat of Edwards County, with a median age a little above the national middle. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Household incomes run below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is common nationally. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with January the coldest month and July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops and in government. Across Edwards County, the largest workplaces include VZL Staffing Services, a hydroponic crop farm, and Edwards County CUSD 1, the school district. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in most places, the typical commute is short, and very few people work from home. Unemployment across the county has risen over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Bonpas Creek and the Elm River are both a short drive away. Farther afield, Beall Woods State Park and Harmonie State Park are protected areas a longer drive from town, and Red Hills State Park is another. These are places for walking, picnicking and quiet time near water and woods.
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- 848households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 28%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Edwards County had 1,693 jobs in 2025, 12.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Albion weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Edwards County
- VZL Staffing ServicesHydroponic crop farming285
- Edwards County CUSD 1School district155FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 285 people in all across the county; Albion has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Strong windRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Albion’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Edwards County.
Albion home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Albion$124,483
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Albion7
Zip codes with a Albion address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Albion — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.