Beecher City, Illinois.
Typical home $185,043 (+10.3% in a year). Effingham, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$516 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,278 +10%
- $167,765$185,043 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,044 +31%
- $140,999$185,043 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.
- Beecher City$971
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Beecher City, IL rose 10.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Beecher City, Fayette County, Illinois
Beecher City is a village of 428 people in Fayette County. Unemployment in Fayette County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Beecher City is a very small village in Fayette County, Illinois, where neighbors are likely to know one another by sight. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn properly warm, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and restaurants and hotels close behind. Across Fayette County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Vandalia CUSD and Fayette County Hospital. The commute is a fairly long one for many people, and very few work from home. Jobs across the county have slipped a little, though unemployment there is lower than a year ago.
Things to do. Becks Creek, a river, and Lake Sara, a reservoir, are both a short drive away, and make the easiest outings for fishing or time by the water. A longer drive brings you to Lake Shelbyville, a larger reservoir, and to Vandalia State House State Historic Site, a museum that looks back on the state's early history.
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- 194households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 28 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fayette County had 4,954 jobs in 2025, 1.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 15 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Effingham 3SW weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fayette County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters296
- Vandalia CUSD 203School district256FTE
- Conagra BrandsSeasoning and dressing manufacturing249
- Fayette County HospitalCritical access hospital248FTE
- Odyssey Fulfillment Managed ServicesTransportation, warehousing and logistics96
- VRC Engineered Solutions-VansealExtruded, molded or lathe-cut rubber goods manufacturing85
- Wabash Valley Produce IllinoisEggs, processed, manufacturing83
- Midwest Services GroupExcavation contractors82
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,583 people in all across the county; Beecher City has one 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Beecher City’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 Fayette County and the Effingham, IL metro.
Beecher City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Beecher City$185,043
- 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 Beecher City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Beecher City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.