Browns, Illinois.
Typical home $113,342 (-6.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$141 (+31%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Down $8,248 -7%
- $121,590$113,342 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $15,766 -12%
- $129,108$113,342 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.
- Browns$595
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Browns, IL fell 6.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Browns, Wabash County, Illinois
Browns is a village of 139 people in Wabash County. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Wabash County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wabash 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Browns is a very small village in Wabash County, Illinois, with a population smaller than most towns and nearly all of its homes lived in by their owners. Home values are modest, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, while July brings hot summer days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops, and farming, forestry and mining. Very few work from home. Across Wabash County, the largest workplaces include Wabash General Hospital District, Wabash CUSD and MotoRad.
Things to do. Beall Woods State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the closest of the nearby green spaces. Bonpas Creek, a small river, is also a short drive away. Harmonie State Park, another protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
- 3%work from home
What people in Wabash County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wabash County had 3,339 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Albion weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wabash County
- Wabash General Hospital DistrictCritical access hospital406FTE
- Wabash CUSD 348School district238FTE
- MotoRadAutomotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers193
- Mt Carmel Stabilization GroupRoad construction144
- Wabash Valley CollegeTwo-year college110
- Houchens Food GroupSupermarkets and other grocery stores47
- Villas of Holly Brook - Mt. CarmelAssisted living facilities for the elderly44
- BraunAbility Mount CarmelMachine shops39
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,465 people in all across the county; Browns has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Browns’ 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 Wabash County.
Browns home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Browns$113,342
- 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 Browns address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Browns — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.