Edelstein, Illinois.
Typical home $286,500 (+11.4% in a year). Peoria, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$899 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $29,258 +11%
- $257,242$286,500 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $91,167 +47%
- $195,333$286,500 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.
- Edelstein$1,504
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Edelstein, IL rose 11.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Edelstein, Peoria County, Illinois
The Census does not count Edelstein on its own, so the figures here are Peoria County's. Half the county's households earn more than $65,108 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 67% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Peoria County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Peoria County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Edelstein is a small town in Peoria County, in central Illinois. Winters are cold and often snowy, and summers are warm, with a good deal of rain falling over the year. Across Peoria County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical resident is in the middle of adult life.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops. Across Peoria County, jobs have become somewhat fewer over the past year, and unemployment has eased since last year. A fair share of people work from home, and most others make a fairly short trip to their jobs.
Things to do. The Peoria Zoo is a zoo a longer drive away, and it is one of the best known attractions in the area. Woodford State Fish and Wildlife Area, a protected area, is a short drive away. Wheels O' Time Museum, also a short drive away, is a museum that many visitors enjoy.
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- 77,755households
- 38.1median age
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Peoria County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Peoria County had 101,809 jobs in 2025, 2.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 63°. About 20 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Princeville weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Peoria County
- Saint Francis Medical CenterGeneral hospital4,615FTE
- Methodist Medical CTR of IllinoisGeneral hospital2,177FTE
- Bradley UniversityUniversity or college1,189
- CaterpillarFoundries, iron1,186
- Peoria SD 150School district1,044FTE
- Komatsu America Corp PMOQuarrying machinery and equipment manufacturing952
- RLIInsurance underwriting, life, direct863
- Transmissions Building KKAutomatic transmissions, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing863
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 207 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 30,450 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Peoria County, 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 Peoria County and the Peoria, IL metro.
Edelstein home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Edelstein$286,500
- 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 Edelstein address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Edelstein — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.