Atwood, Illinois.
Typical home $157,432 (-4.4% in a year). Champaign-Urbana, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$416 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,212 -4%
- $164,644$157,432 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,169 +24%
- $127,264$157,432 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.
- Atwood$826
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Atwood, IL fell 4.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Atwood, Douglas County, Illinois
Atwood is a village of 1,116 people in Douglas County. Half its households earn more than $62,383 a year and half less, against $77,320 across Douglas County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Douglas County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Atwood is a small village in Douglas County, Illinois, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Homes here cost less than the typical home across much of the country, and household incomes run below the county's. Residents are around the age of the typical American, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in shops. Across Douglas County, some of the largest workplaces are The Libman Company, a broom maker, Haven of Tuscola, a skilled nursing facility, and Tuscola CUSD 301, a school district. The typical commute is a moderate drive, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. The closest well-known places are all a longer drive away, among them Robert Allerton Park, a botanical garden, and the Monticello Railway Museum, a railway museum. Krannert Art Museum is another museum within reach for a day out. Winters are cold and snowy, with a fair amount of rain through the year and warm summers, so outdoor outings suit the warmer months best.
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- 513households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Douglas County had 7,574 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 17 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tuscola weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Douglas County
- The Libman CompanyBrooms, hand and machine, manufacturing680
- Herff Jones - ArcolaPants, waterproof outerwear, cut and sewn from purchased fabric262
- Haven of TuscolaSkilled nursing facilities162
- Tuscola CUSD 301School district148FTE
- Arthur CUSD 305School district147FTE
- Haven of ArcolaSkilled nursing facilities144
- Arcola CUSD 306School district142FTE
- Tri-County WeldingErecting structural steel97
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,021 people in all across the county; Atwood has one of its own. 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Hailrelatively high in parts of AtwoodRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Atwood’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 Douglas County and the Champaign-Urbana, IL metro.
Atwood home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Atwood$157,432
- 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.
- Atwood10
Zip codes with a Atwood address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Atwood — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.