Dundas, Illinois.
Typical home $166,395 (+17.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$145 (+20%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $24,795 +18%
- $141,601$166,395 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.
- Dundas$873
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Dundas, IL rose 17.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dundas, Richland County, Illinois
Dundas, in Richland County, had 146 people in the 2020 census. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dundas is a very small community in Richland County, Illinois, home to only a few people compared with most towns. Homes here are modest in price, and the county's household incomes sit at a moderate level. 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 shops, manufacturing, and transport and warehousing also employing many. Across Richland County, the largest workplaces include Richland Memorial Hospital, Richland County CUSD 1 and Prairie Farms Olney. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The closest outdoor option is Prairie Ridge State Natural Area, a protected area a short drive away. The North Fork Embarras River, also a short drive away, offers a quiet river setting. For a longer outing, Red Hills State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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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 35° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 65°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newton Sse 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; Dundas 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dundas’ 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.
Dundas home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dundas$166,395
- 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 Dundas address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dundas — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.