Chrisman, Illinois.
Typical home $122,016 (+9.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$267 (+71%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,927 +10%
- $111,089$122,016 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $13,045 +12%
- $108,971$122,016 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.
- Chrisman$640
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Chrisman, IL rose 9.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chrisman, Edgar County, Illinois
Chrisman is a city of 1,312 people in Edgar County. Half its households earn more than $58,462 a year and half less, against $59,941 across Edgar County. Unemployment in Edgar County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Edgar County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chrisman is a small city in Edgar County, Illinois, where homes are valued modestly and household incomes sit a little below the county's. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many communities. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while July is the warmest and summers are comfortably warm. Rain and melted snow fall steadily across the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. Across Edgar County, some of the largest workplaces are North American Lighting, which makes electrical equipment for motor vehicles, Paris Community Hospital, and Cornerstone Building Brands. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added a small number of jobs.
Things to do. The outdoors is the main draw nearby. Turkey Run State Park is a protected area, and the Vermilion River is a river within a longer drive. Kickapoo State Recreation Area is another protected area a longer drive away, and for an indoor outing the Swope Art Museum is a museum, also a longer drive from town.
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- 448households
- 21%of adults have a degree
What people in Edgar County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Edgar County had 7,158 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 19 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Paris Stp weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Edgar County
- North American LightingMotor vehicle electrical and electronic equipment manufacturing1,203
- Paris Community HospitalCritical access hospital488FTE
- North American LightingMotor vehicle electrical and electronic equipment manufacturing373
- Cornerstone Building BrandsScreening, window, plastics, manufacturing342
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters209
- Paris-Union SD 95School district201FTE
- GSI ParisFeed processing equipment, farm-type, manufacturing191
- Twin Lakes Extended CareNursing homes125
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,071 people in all across the county; Chrisman has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Chrisman’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 Edgar County.
Chrisman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chrisman$122,016
- 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.
- Chrisman6
Zip codes with a Chrisman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chrisman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.