El Paso, Illinois.
Typical home $190,618 (+3.9% in a year). Peoria, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$497 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,096 +4%
- $183,522$190,618 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,672 +23%
- $154,946$190,618 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.
- El Paso$1,001
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in El Paso, IL rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in El Paso, Woodford County, Illinois
El Paso is a city of 2,756 people in Woodford County. Half its households earn more than $75,625 a year and half less, against $91,483 across Woodford County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Woodford County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. El Paso is a small city in Woodford County, Illinois, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and the typical home is modestly priced. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults than not, and the town's residents sit in the middle of the age range, neither especially young nor old.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with banks, insurance, shops and manufacturing also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in town are El Paso-Gridley CUSD 11, Beck's El Paso, a corn and seed operation, and Kirby Foods El Paso, a grocery store. Most people drive to work, and a small number work from home.
Things to do. Money Creek, a river, and Evergreen Lake and Lake Bloomington, both reservoirs, are all a short drive away and suit time on the water. A longer drive brings you to Peoria Zoo, or to Fell Arboretum, a botanical garden. Winters are cold and snowy and summers warm, so outdoor plans suit the warmer months.
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- 1,078households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Woodford County had 11,272 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 22 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Minonk weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in El Paso
- El Paso-Gridley CUSD 11School district166FTE
- El Paso Emergency SquadEmergency medical transportation services, air or ground55
- Beck's El PasoCorn farming, field and seed production49
- Kirby Foods El PasoGrocery stores42
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 146 people in all. School districts come 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in El Paso’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 Woodford County and the Peoria, IL metro.
El Paso home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- El Paso$190,618
- 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 El Paso address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls El Paso — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.