Ashmore, Illinois.
Typical home $143,510 (+3.9% in a year). Charleston-Mattoon, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$390 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,421 +4%
- $138,089$143,510 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,372 +34%
- $107,138$143,510 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.
- Ashmore$753
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Ashmore, IL rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ashmore, Coles County, Illinois
Ashmore is a village of 637 people in Coles County. Half its households earn more than $56,615 a year and half less, against $56,478 across Coles County. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Coles County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Coles County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ashmore is a small village in Coles County, Illinois, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes are about level with the county's, and not many adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with snow through the season, and summers turn properly warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The biggest workplaces across Coles County include Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center, Eastern Illinois University and Lake Land College. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Charleston, a reservoir, is a short drive away, as is O'Brien Stadium. Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site, a protected area, is a longer drive away, as is Fox Ridge State Park, which gives more room for walking and time outdoors.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 25 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Coles County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Coles County had 23,624 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 19 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Charleston weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Coles County
- Sarah Bush Lincoln Health CenterGeneral hospital2,322FTE
- Eastern Illinois UniversityUniversity or college1,191
- Lake Land CollegeTwo-year college609
- RK HoldingsFarm supply store549
- Mattoon CUSD 2School district464FTE
- SIMOS Insourcing SolutionsStaffing402
- Charleston CUSD 1School district386FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters364
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 57 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,859 people in all across the county; Ashmore has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ashmore’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 Coles County and the Charleston-Mattoon, IL metro.
Ashmore home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ashmore$143,510
- 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.
- Ashmore5
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Ashmore address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ashmore — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.