Cisne, Illinois.
Typical home $131,126 (+3.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2 (+0%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $4,585 +4%
- $126,541$131,126 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.
- Cisne$688
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Cisne, IL rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cisne, Wayne County, Illinois
Cisne is a village of 634 people in Wayne County. Half its households earn more than $59,926 a year and half less, against $55,521 across Wayne County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Wayne County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wayne 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cisne is a small village in Wayne County, Illinois, home to a small community of residents. Household incomes here run a little above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect in a rural area. Homes are modestly priced, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail, and farming, forestry and mining also employing many. Across Wayne County, the largest workplaces include Fairfield Memorial Hospital, Walmart and Fairfield PSD Schools. Jobs in the county have slipped a little over the past year, and unemployment is somewhat lower than a year ago. Hardly anyone works from home, and the typical commute is a moderate drive.
Things to do. A short drive away, Sam Dale Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area is a protected area for time outdoors, and the Wayne County Fairgrounds is a park close to home. A longer drive leads to Stephen A. Forbes State Recreation Area, another protected area. Winters are cold and summers hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
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- 291households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Wayne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 3,958 jobs in 2025, 2.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fairfield Radio Wfiw weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wayne County
- Community Care SystemsHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical288
- Fairfield Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital246FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters213
- Fairfield PSD 112School district137FTE
- Frontier Community CollegeTwo-year college107
- Wayne City CUSD 100School district84FTE
- Fairfield Comm H S Dist 225 SchoolsSchool district63FTE
- North Wayne CUSD 200School district53FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 748 people in all across the county; Cisne has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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 wavesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cisne’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Wayne County.
Cisne home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cisne$131,126
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cisne6
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Cisne address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cisne — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.