Edwards, Illinois.
Typical home $330,901 (+7.5% in a year). Peoria, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$962 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,223 +8%
- $307,677$330,901 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $86,959 +36%
- $243,941$330,901 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.
- Edwards$1,737
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Edwards, IL rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Edwards, Peoria County, Illinois
The Census does not count Edwards 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Edwards sits in Peoria County, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Across the county, residents are middle-aged on average, and household incomes are modest, with a noticeable group living near the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the hottest.
Work. Across Peoria County, many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, professional and business services, or retail shops. Unemployment has eased over the past year, although the number of jobs dipped slightly. Some residents work from home, and trips to work tend to be quick.
Things to do. Close by, the Peoria Zoo is a zoo a short drive away, and the Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences is a museum also a short drive away. Jubilee College State Park, a protected area, is likewise a short drive off. For time by the water, the Mackinaw River is a longer drive away.
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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 34° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 26 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Peoria Greater Peoria Airport weather station, 8 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.
Edwards home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Edwards$330,901
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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 Edwards address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Edwards — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.