Barry, Illinois.
Typical home $93,169 (+9.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$102 (+26%) since Oct 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $8,148 +10%
- $85,021$93,169 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.
- Barry$489
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Barry, IL rose 9.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Barry, Pike County, Illinois
Barry is a city of 1,303 people in Pike County. Half its households earn more than $76,042 a year and half less, against $59,777 across Pike County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Pike County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pike 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Barry is a small city in Pike County, Illinois, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run well above the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and government also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Barry are Western CUSD 12, Barry Healthcare & Senior Living and Revolution Cannabis. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and the commute to work is fairly typical.
Things to do. The Free Frank McWorter Grave Site, a protected area, is in or beside town, and New Philadelphia National Historic Site, an archaeological site, is a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 543households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Pike County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pike County had 3,819 jobs in 2025, 1.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Saverton L&d weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Barry
- Revolution Cannabis- Barry (AWH)Hydroponic crop farming490
- Western CUSD 12School district96FTE
- Barry Healthcare & Senior LivingNursing homes74
- Ascend WellnessTemporary staffing services51
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 615 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Barry’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 Pike County.
Barry home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Barry$93,169
- 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.
- Barry5
Zip codes with a Barry address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Barry — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.