Baylis, Illinois.
Typical home $114,366 (+10.9% in a year). Quincy, IL-MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$96 (+19%) since Oct 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $11,250 +11%
- $103,116$114,366 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.
- Baylis$600
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Baylis, IL rose 10.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Baylis, Pike County, Illinois
Baylis is a village of 172 people in Pike County. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Baylis is a very small village in Pike County, Illinois, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here cost well below what is typical across the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm, with July the hottest. Rain and melted snow fall through the year at a moderate level.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and government also employing many. Across Pike County, some of the largest workplaces are Illini Community Hospital, Pikeland CUSD 10 and Walmart. The county has lost a small share of its jobs over the past year, though unemployment there is lower than it was a year earlier, and the typical commute is a moderate one by most standards.
Things to do. A short drive away is New Philadelphia National Historic Site, an archaeological site, and the Free Frank McWorter Grave Site, a protected area. Farther afield are the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum, a museum, and Siloam Springs State Park, a protected area. The La Moine River is a longer drive as well, for those who like to be near water.
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- 1%of adults have a degree
- 22 mintypical commute
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 36° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 21 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Perry Northwest weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pike County
- Revolution Cannabis- Barry (AWH)Hydroponic crop farming490
- Help At HomeHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical286
- Pikeland CUSD 10School district199FTE
- Illini Community HospitalCritical access hospital163FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores104
- Western CUSD 12School district96FTE
- Niemann Foods88
- Pleasant Hill CUSD 3School district86FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,647 people in all across the county; Baylis 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Baylis’ 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 and the Quincy, IL-MO metro.
Baylis home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Baylis$114,366
- 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 Baylis address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Baylis — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Baylis
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 62353 | Mount Sterling | 5,066 | — | $167,057 |
| 62314 | Baylis | 530 | — | $126,676 |