Cullom, Illinois.
Typical home $151,321 (+18.2% in a year). Pontiac, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$476 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,308 +18%
- $128,013$151,321 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,382 +58%
- $95,939$151,321 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.
- Cullom$794
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Cullom, IL rose 18.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cullom, Livingston County, Illinois
Cullom is a village of 520 people in Livingston County. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Livingston County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cullom is a small village in Livingston County, Illinois, where almost everyone lives in a home they own. Typical home values are modest, and a good many households live on less than is typical for the county. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers turn warm in July; precipitation arrives steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and on farms. Few people work from home, and the typical drive to work is a fairly long one, so many commute to jobs elsewhere in the county. Across Livingston County, some of the largest workplaces are Vactor Manufacturing, which assembles heavy trucks, OSF Healthcare, a general hospital, and Walmart.
Things to do. Most of the outdoor places nearby are a longer drive away. Kankakee River State Park is a protected area along a river, and the Iroquois River is another waterway within reach for a day out. Lake Iroquois is a lake, also a longer drive away, for those who like to spend time by the water.
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- 223households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Livingston County had 13,918 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 63°. About 25 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Piper City weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Livingston County
- Pontiac FacilityDiesel and semidiesel engines manufacturing918
- Vactor ManufacturingHeavy trucks assembling on purchased chassis765
- Pontiac Correctional CenterCorrectional institutions458
- OSF Healthcare SJJWAMCHospitals, general medical and surgical383
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters332
- DWT - Aldi329
- WilliamIntellectual and developmental disability facilities, residential279
- Livingston CountyGovernment base facilities operation support services278
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 45 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,548 people in all across the county; Cullom has none of its own. 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 windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cullom’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 Livingston County and the Pontiac, IL metro.
Cullom home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cullom$151,321
- 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.
- Cullom5
Zip codes with a Cullom address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cullom — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.