Claremont, Illinois.
Typical home $189,618 (+9.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$27 (+3%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $16,294 +9%
- $173,324$189,618 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.
- Claremont$995
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Claremont, IL rose 9.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Claremont, Richland County, Illinois
Claremont is a village of 161 people in Richland County. Unemployment in Richland County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Richland 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Claremont is a very small village, home to far fewer people than most towns a visitor would know. Homes here cost less than the typical American home, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country as a whole. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly hot by July. Snowfall is light for a place with winters like these, and rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and transport, warehouses and utilities also employing many. Very few work from home. Across Richland County, the largest workplaces include Richland Memorial Hospital, Richland County CUSD 1 and Olney Central College. The county has lost some jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Red Hills State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the closest outdoor option. A longer drive brings you to George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, a museum site, and to the Forts of Vincennes, a historic fort. The White River and the Embarras River are also a longer drive away for time by the water.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 2%work from home
What people in Richland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Richland County had 5,731 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 10 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Olney 2S weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Richland County
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage998
- Richland Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital317FTE
- Richland County CUSD 1School district314FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters247
- Olney Central CollegeTwo-year college119
- Prairie Farms OlneyMilk processing manufacturing110
- IGC HoldingsEngineers' offices101
- Illinois Eastern Community College-System OfficeTwo-year college92
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,227 people in all across the county; Claremont has none 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
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Claremont’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 Richland County.
Claremont home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Claremont$189,618
- 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 Claremont address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Claremont — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.