Cameron, Illinois.
Typical home $178,369 (+6.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$383 (+69%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $10,582 +6%
- $167,787$178,369 since Sep 2025
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.
- Cameron$936
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Cameron, IL rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cameron, Warren County, Illinois
Cameron, in Warren County, had 188 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Warren County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Warren 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cameron is a very small community in Warren County, Illinois, where neighbors are likely to know one another by sight. Homes here cost less than the typical American home, and the quiet, rural surroundings set the pace of daily life. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm, with July the warmest, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Warren County, the largest workplaces include Smithfield Monmouth Fresh Meats, Monmouth-Roseville CUSD and Monmouth College. The typical commute is short, and the county's unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Carl Sandburg State Historic Site is a museum devoted to the poet, and Standish Park Arboretum is a botanical garden. Lake Bracken, a reservoir, is also a short drive away, and Big River State Forest, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 16 mintypical commute
What people in Warren County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Warren County had 6,346 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 26 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Monmouth weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Warren County
- Smithfield Monmouth Fresh MeatsPork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants1,547
- Monmouth-Roseville CUSD 238School district261FTE
- Monmouth CollegeUniversity or college227
- Midwestern Pet Foods, Inc. - MonmouthAnimal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, manufacturing163
- United CUSD 304School district121FTE
- Fusion Tech IntegratedPlate work, fabricated metal, manufacturing105
- OSF Holy Family MED CTRCritical access hospital105FTE
- Industrial Trade ServicesManpower pools84
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,799 people in all across the county; Cameron has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cameron’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 Warren County.
Cameron home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cameron$178,369
- 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 Cameron address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cameron — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.