Assumption, Illinois.
Typical home $133,749 (+4.9% in a year). Taylorville, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$392 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,196 +5%
- $127,553$133,749 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,221 +41%
- $94,528$133,749 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.
- Assumption$702
- 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 Assumption, IL rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Assumption, Christian County, Illinois
Assumption is a city of 1,155 people in Christian County. Half its households earn more than $57,500 a year and half less, against $62,611 across Christian County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Christian County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Christian 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Assumption is a small city in Christian County, Illinois, and a quiet one. Household incomes run below the county's, and a typical home costs less than in many parts of the country. Winters are cold, with snow that comes and goes through the season, and summers turn warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in government. Some of the largest workplaces in town are GSI, which makes farm machinery and equipment, and the Central A & M school district. Jobs across the county have slipped a little over the past year, though unemployment there is lower than it was a year earlier, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Kitchell Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the nearest place to get outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Lake Shelbyville, a large reservoir, and to Hidden Springs State Forest, another protected area. Scovill Zoo is also a longer drive away if you want a day out with visitors.
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- 600households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Christian County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Christian County had 9,275 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 14 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pana weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Assumption
- GSI : AssumptionFarm machinery and equipment manufacturing397
- The GSI GroupFarm machinery and equipment manufacturing250
- Central A & M CUD 21 SchoolsSchool district125FTE
- Sloan Implement CompanyGarden power equipment stores93
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 740 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Assumption’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 Christian County and the Taylorville, IL metro.
Assumption home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Assumption$133,749
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Assumption address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Assumption — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.