Cisco, Illinois.
Typical home $224,781 (-0.8% in a year). Champaign-Urbana, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$502 (+74%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,713 -1%
- $226,494$224,781 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,137 +10%
- $204,645$224,781 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.
- Cisco$1,180
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 37 years.
Typical home values in Cisco, IL fell 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cisco, Piatt County, Illinois
Cisco is a village of 254 people in Piatt County. Unemployment in Piatt County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Piatt County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cisco is a very small village in Piatt County, Illinois, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here cost less than the typical home in many parts of the country, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in most places. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Piatt County, some of the largest workplaces are Kirby Hospital, Monticello CUSD 25 and Cim-Tek Filtration. Most people have a short drive to work, and very few work from home. Household incomes across the county are fairly high, and the county has seen a small gain in jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Robert Allerton Park, a botanical garden, and the Monticello Railway Museum are both a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Weldon Springs State Park, a protected area with walking and open space. The Krannert Art Museum is also a longer drive away for an afternoon indoors.
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- 19%of adults have a degree
- 19 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Piatt County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Piatt County had 3,776 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Decatur Airport weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Piatt County
- Kirby HospitalCritical access hospital247FTE
- Monticello CUSD 25School district237FTE
- Haven of BementSkilled nursing facilities94
- Central Illinois Manufacturing Co, Cim-Tek FiltrationFilters automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing93
- Niemann Foods76
- Cerro Gordo CUSD 100School district72FTE
- White Construction - ProsperityWind power structure construction62
- Deland-Weldon CUSD 57School district49FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 928 people in all across the county; Cisco has none 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cisco’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 Piatt County and the Champaign-Urbana, IL metro.
Cisco home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cisco$224,781
- 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 Cisco address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cisco — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.