Bement, Illinois.
Typical home $208,676 (+3.9% in a year). Champaign-Urbana, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$534 (+95%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,850 +4%
- $200,826$208,676 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,150 +26%
- $165,526$208,676 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.
- Bement$1,095
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Bement, IL rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bement, Piatt County, Illinois
Bement is a village of 1,484 people in Piatt County. Half its households earn more than $76,250 a year and half less, against $94,811 across Piatt County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Piatt County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bement is a small village in Piatt County, and most of the homes here are lived in by their owners. Residents are somewhat younger than you might expect for a small Illinois village. Incomes run below the county's, though few households fall below the poverty line, and a typical home is priced well within reach. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July; a good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Bement are Haven of Bement, a skilled nursing facility, Cim-Tek Filtration, which makes filters for vehicles, and the Bement school district. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a fairly long one by small-town standards. Unemployment across Piatt County has fallen from a year earlier, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Robert Allerton Park, a botanical garden, is a short drive away, as is the Monticello Railway Museum. For a longer outing, Krannert Art Museum is a museum worth the drive. Each of these makes an easy day trip from the village.
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- 699households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Piatt County had 3,776 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Champaign Southwest weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bement
- Haven of BementSkilled nursing facilities94
- Central Illinois Manufacturing Co, Cim-Tek FiltrationFilters automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing93
- Bement CUSD 5School district48FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 187 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bement’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 Piatt County and the Champaign-Urbana, IL metro.
Bement home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bement$208,676
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Bement5
Zip codes with a Bement address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bement — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.