Canton, Illinois.
Typical home $108,350 (+4.8% in a year). Peoria, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$249 (+78%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,945 +5%
- $103,406$108,350 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $10,308 +11%
- $98,042$108,350 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.
- Canton$569
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 35 years.
Typical home values in Canton, IL rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Canton, Fulton County, Illinois
Canton is a city of 13,242 people in Fulton County. Half its households earn more than $53,254 a year and half less, against $60,599 across Fulton County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Fulton County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Canton is a small city in Fulton County, Illinois, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values are modest. The population is older than in much of the country, and household incomes run below the county's. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers turn quite warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Canton are Graham Hospital Association, Canton Union SD 66 and Walmart. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is fairly short.
Things to do. Canton Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away, as is Rice Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area, a protected area for wildlife and outdoor time. The Orendorf Site, an archaeological site, is in or beside town. For a day out, the Peoria Zoo is a longer drive away.
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- 5,523households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fulton County had 8,639 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 65°. About 28 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Havana weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Canton
- Illinois River Correctional CenterCorrectional institutions389
- Canton Union SD 66School district374FTE
- Graham Hospital AssociationGeneral hospital306FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores152
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores123
- Ingersoll Middle SchoolMiddle schools86
- Kroger Central KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores61
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary schools55
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,625 people in all. 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 wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Canton’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 Fulton County and the Peoria, IL metro.
Canton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Canton$108,350
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Canton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 31 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Canton22.76%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Canton31
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Canton75
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Canton19
Zip codes with a Canton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Canton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.