Allendale, Illinois.
Typical home $150,344 (+4.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$363 (+85%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $6,046 +4%
- $144,298$150,344 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $18,619 +14%
- $131,725$150,344 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.
- Allendale$789
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Allendale, IL rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Allendale, Wabash County, Illinois
Allendale is a village of 458 people in Wabash County. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Wabash County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wabash County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Allendale is a very small village in Wabash County, Illinois, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and a share of households live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and some snow most years. Summers are warm, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and farming and forestry also employing many. Across Wabash County, the largest workplaces include Wabash General Hospital District, the Wabash school district and MotoRad. The commute is long, and very few people work from home. Jobs in the county have slipped a little over the past year, and unemployment is a touch lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. The White River and the Embarras River are both a short drive away, and are the closest places to spend time outdoors. A longer drive leads to George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, a museum site tied to the early history of the region. Beall Woods State Park, also a longer drive, is a protected area for walking and enjoying the woods.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Wabash County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wabash County had 3,339 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 69°. About 9 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Carmel weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wabash County
- Wabash General Hospital DistrictCritical access hospital406FTE
- Wabash CUSD 348School district238FTE
- MotoRadAutomotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers193
- Mt Carmel Stabilization GroupRoad construction144
- Wabash Valley CollegeTwo-year college110
- Houchens Food GroupSupermarkets and other grocery stores47
- Villas of Holly Brook - Mt. CarmelAssisted living facilities for the elderly44
- BraunAbility Mount CarmelMachine shops39
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,465 people in all across the county; Allendale has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Allendale’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Wabash County.
Allendale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Allendale$150,344
- 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.
Zip codes with a Allendale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Allendale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.