Bushnell, Illinois.
Typical home $69,403 (-6.8% in a year). Macomb, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$129 (+55%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,077 -7%
- $74,480$69,403 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $1,880 -3%
- $71,284$69,403 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.
- Bushnell$364
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Bushnell, IL fell 6.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bushnell, McDonough County, Illinois
Bushnell is a city of 2,718 people in McDonough County. Half its households earn more than $67,518 a year and half less, against $52,795 across McDonough County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in McDonough County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bushnell is a small city in McDonough County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and home prices are modest. Household incomes run higher than across the county as a whole, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than in many places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while July brings warm summer days, and the year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in Bushnell are the Bushnell Prairie City school district, Marshalltown Hammer, which makes saw blades, and Bushnell Illinois Tank Company, which builds farm-type feed processing equipment. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before, and the typical commute is of a moderate length, with very few people working from home.
Things to do. The closest outdoor spots are Drowning Fork, a river, and Little Swan Lake, a reservoir, both a short drive away. For a longer outing, Argyle Lake State Park is a protected area that takes a longer drive to reach. Carl Sandburg State Historic Site, a museum, is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,259households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McDonough County had 9,955 jobs in 2025, 1.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 21 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Prairie City 2S weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bushnell
- Bushnell Prairie City CUSD 170School district152FTE
- Marshalltown HammerSaw blades, all types, manufacturing105
- Bushnell Illinois Tank CompanyFeed processing equipment, farm-type, manufacturing45
- Archer Daniels Midland Company32
- TriOak FoodsAnimal feed mills manufacturing20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 202 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bushnell’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 McDonough County and the Macomb, IL metro.
Bushnell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bushnell$69,403
- 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.
- Bushnell15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bushnell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bushnell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.