Beason, Illinois.
Typical home $159,511 (+13.1% in a year). Lincoln, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$388 (+86%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,481 +13%
- $141,029$159,511 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,777 +22%
- $130,733$159,511 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.
- Beason$837
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Beason, IL rose 13.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Beason, Logan County, Illinois
Beason, in Logan County, had 147 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Logan County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Logan 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Beason is a very small community in Logan County, Illinois, where people tend to know one another by sight. Homes here are valued well below what is typical across much of the country. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers turn warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and government also employing a good share. Across Logan County, some of the largest workplaces are Eaton, Lincoln Memorial Hospital and Ameren Illinois. The typical commute is a moderate one, and unemployment in the county has eased compared with a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The Heritage in Flight Museum and the Postville Courthouse State Historic Site are both museums a short drive away. For time outdoors, Weldon Springs State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, suited to a day trip rather than an afternoon.
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- 24 mintypical commute
What people in Logan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Logan County had 7,636 jobs in 2025, 3.1% 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 86° and lows near 64°. About 19 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lincoln weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Logan County
- EatonEaton742
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters287
- Cresco Labs - LincolnHydroponic crop farming258
- Lincoln Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital253FTE
- Ameren IllinoisElectric power transmission, control, and distribution200
- Lincoln ESD 27School district192FTE
- Sysco Central IllinoisGeneral-line groceries merchant wholesalers190
- Precision ProductsLawn and garden equipment manufacturing136
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,736 people in all across the county; Beason has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Beason’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 Logan County and the Lincoln, IL metro.
Beason home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Beason$159,511
- 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 Beason address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Beason — 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.