Buckley, Illinois.
Typical home $159,348 (-2.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$379 (+83%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,364 -2%
- $162,712$159,348 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,111 +14%
- $139,237$159,348 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.
- Buckley$836
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Buckley, IL fell 2.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Buckley, Iroquois County, Illinois
Buckley is a village of 495 people in Iroquois County. Half its households earn more than $53,500 a year and half less, against $66,255 across Iroquois County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Iroquois County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Iroquois 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Buckley is a very small village in Iroquois County, home to far fewer people than most towns. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and the typical home is valued well below what is common across much of the country. Household incomes run below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than most would expect. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing, and summers are warm. A modest amount of snow falls each year, along with a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Few people work from home, and the typical drive to work is a fairly long one. Across Iroquois County, some of the biggest employers are Walmart, Prairieview Lutheran Homes and Central CUSD 4. Jobs across the county have slipped over the past year, though unemployment there is lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. Bayles Lake, a reservoir, and Lake Iroquois, a lake, are both a short drive away and suit a quiet afternoon by the water. For a longer outing, the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum is a longer drive away. Middle Fork State Fish and Wildlife Area, a protected area, is also a longer drive away.
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- 216households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Iroquois County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Iroquois County had 7,015 jobs in 2025, 4.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 18 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Paxton Wsw weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Iroquois County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters222
- Prairieview Lutheran HomesSkilled nursing facilities213
- Central CUSD 4School district187FTE
- Iroquois West CUSD 10School district166FTE
- Nexus Onarga Family HealingMental health facilities, residential164
- T&D Metal ProductsCold rolling steel shapes made from purchased steel161
- Iroquois Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital151FTE
- LyonShowcases manufacturing142
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,886 people in all across the county; Buckley 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Buckley’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 Iroquois County.
Buckley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Buckley$159,348
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Buckley5
Zip codes with a Buckley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Buckley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.