Arrowsmith, Illinois.
Typical home $205,112 (+7.5% in a year). Bloomington, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$594 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,352 +8%
- $190,760$205,112 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,455 +40%
- $146,657$205,112 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.
- Arrowsmith$1,077
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Arrowsmith, IL rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Arrowsmith, McLean County, Illinois
Arrowsmith is a village of 276 people in McLean County. Half its households earn more than $88,594 a year and half less, against $79,905 across McLean County. Unemployment in McLean County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in McLean County work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Arrowsmith is a small village in McLean County, Illinois, with a population that keeps it among the smallest places in the county. Household incomes here run above the county's, and homes are valued at a level many buyers elsewhere would find modest. Winters are cold, with January highs hovering around freezing and nights well below it, and summers turn warm in July. The year brings a fair amount of snow and a good deal of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with banks, insurance and property, shops, and professional and business services also employing many. Commutes are fairly long, since most jobs lie outside the village, and a share of people work from home. Across McLean County, the biggest employers include Illinois State University, McLean County USD 5 and the Rivian plant in Normal. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, though there were somewhat fewer jobs in the county last year than the year before.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Sangamon River and Salt Creek offer quiet water for walking its banks and watching wildlife, and Moraine View State Recreation Area is a protected area for outdoor time. The Grand Village of the Kickapoo, an archaeological site, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Fell Arboretum is a botanical garden and Prairie Aviation Museum is a museum, both a longer drive away.
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- 28 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in McLean County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McLean County had 87,006 jobs in 2025, 2.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 18 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gibson City weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in McLean County
- Rivian Motorway (Normal, Illinois)Assembly plants, light trucks on chassis of own manufacture5,309
- Illinois State UniversityUniversity or college3,570
- McLean County USD 5School district1,988FTE
- City of BloomingtonParks, nature1,113
- Carle Bromenn Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,030FTE
- St. Joseph Medical CenterGeneral hospital843FTE
- FerreroChocolate bars made from cocoa beans678
- Bloomington SD 87School district565FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 144 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 28,686 people in all across the county; Arrowsmith has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Arrowsmith’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 McLean County and the Bloomington, IL metro.
Arrowsmith home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arrowsmith$205,112
- 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 Arrowsmith address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arrowsmith — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.