Atkinson, Illinois.
Typical home $189,556 (+11.8% in a year). Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$537 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,949 +12%
- $169,607$189,556 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,824 +37%
- $138,732$189,556 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.
- Atkinson$995
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Atkinson, IL rose 11.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Atkinson, Henry County, Illinois
Atkinson is a town of 965 people in Henry County. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Henry County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Atkinson is a very small town in Henry County, Illinois, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values sit at a modest level. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and fewer households fall below the poverty line than you might expect in a place this size. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer highs, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Henry County, some of the largest workplaces are Great Dane Trailers in Kewanee, the Geneseo school district and Hammond-Henry Hospital. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year. The typical commute is a moderate one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Johnson-Sauk Trail State Recreation Area, a protected area, is a short drive away, and so is Mud Creek, a river. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Niabi Zoo and to Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park, another protected area. These give the town a mix of quiet waterways, open parkland and a family outing within reach.
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- 512households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Henry County had 13,972 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 28 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Geneseo weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Henry County
- Great Dane Trailers- KewaneeTruck trailer manufacturing423
- Geneseo CUSD 228School district367FTE
- SpringfieldBarrels, gun, manufacturing345
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters263
- J.F. Edwards Construction CompanyElectrical, electrical wiring, and low voltage electrical work252
- Hammond-henry HospitalCritical access hospital251FTE
- Illinois Department of CorrectionsCorrectional institutions214
- Kewanee CUSD 229School district190FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,513 people in all across the county; Atkinson has two of its own. School districts come 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
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Atkinson’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 Henry County and the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL metro.
Atkinson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Atkinson$189,556
- 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.
Zip codes with a Atkinson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Atkinson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.