Baldwin, Illinois.
Typical home $120,375 (-1.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $41 (-6%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Down $1,857 -2%
- $122,232$120,375 since Sep 2025
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.
- Baldwin$632
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Baldwin, IL fell 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Baldwin, Randolph County, Illinois
Baldwin is a village of 314 people in Randolph County. Unemployment in Randolph County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Randolph County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Baldwin is a very small village in Randolph County, Illinois, where most people know their neighbors by sight if not by name. Homes here are typically valued well below what you would find in much of the country, and household incomes across the county run lower than the national picture. Winters are cold, with only a modest amount of snow, and summers turn hot, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and government also employing many. Across Randolph County, some of the largest workplaces are Chester Mental Health Center, Spartan Light Metal Products in Sparta, and Red Bud Regional Hospital. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, commutes are on the long side, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Baldwin Lake, a lake in or beside town, is the closest place for time outdoors, and Baldwin Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area sits right beside it. The Charter Oak Schoolhouse, a small museum, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Fort de Chartres, a historic fort.
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- 141households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 28 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Randolph County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Randolph County had 11,252 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 11 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sparta West weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Randolph County
- Chester Mental Health CenterHospitals, psychiatric convalescent495
- Spartan Light Metal Products Inc. - SpartaAluminum die-castings, unfinished, manufacturing336
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters249
- Red BUD IndustriesCoil winding and cutting machinery, metalworking, manufacturing238
- Red Bud Regional HospitalHospitals, general medical and surgical200
- Sparta CUSD 140School district190FTE
- Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital189FTE
- Sparta Community HospitalCritical access hospital182FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,508 people in all across the county; Baldwin has none 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Baldwin’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 Randolph County.
Baldwin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Baldwin$120,375
- 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 Baldwin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Baldwin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.