Donnellson, Illinois.
Typical home $126,641 (+6.6% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$248 (+59%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,844 +7%
- $118,797$126,641 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $4,596 +4%
- $122,045$126,641 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.
- Donnellson$665
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 94 years.
Typical home values in Donnellson, IL rose 6.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Donnellson, Bond County, Illinois
Donnellson is a village of 153 people in Bond County. Unemployment in Bond County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bond County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Donnellson is a very small village in Bond County, Illinois, with a population that is among the smallest of any place you would find on a map of the county. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and homes are valued well below what is typical for the country. The winters are cold, and the summers are hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with restaurants, hotels and entertainment, manufacturing and retail close behind. Across Bond County, some of the largest workplaces are Bond County CUSD 2, Greenville University and Greenville Regional Hospital. Household incomes across the county are modest, and unemployment there has eased compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. Coffeen Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area, a protected area, and Governor Bond Lake are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, Carlyle Lake is a reservoir, and Vandalia State House State Historic Site is a museum, both a longer drive away.
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- 2%of adults have a degree
What people in Bond County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bond County had 4,518 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more 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 89° and lows near 67°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hillsboro weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bond County
- Bond County CUSD 2School district356FTE
- Greenville UniversityUniversity or college239
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice156
- Donnewald Distributing CompanyBeverages, alcoholic, merchant wholesalers143
- MallinckrodtMedicinal chemicals, uncompounded, manufacturing89
- Greenville Regional HospitalGeneral hospital76FTE
- Enertech GlobalAir-conditioners, unit, manufacturing69
- Masa MillingBakery products, fresh, made in commercial bakeries65
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 828 people in all across the county; Donnellson has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Donnellson’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 Bond County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Donnellson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Donnellson$126,641
- 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 Donnellson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Donnellson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.