Fillmore, Illinois.
Typical home $187,111 (+11.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$441 (+81%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,756 +12%
- $167,355$187,111 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,446 +28%
- $145,665$187,111 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.
- Fillmore$982
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Fillmore, IL rose 11.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fillmore, Montgomery County, Illinois
Fillmore is a village of 305 people in Montgomery County. Unemployment in Montgomery County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Montgomery 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fillmore is a very small village in Montgomery County, Illinois, with only a handful of streets' worth of neighbors. Homes here cost less than the typical home across the country, and household incomes across the county are modest. Few adults in the village hold a four-year degree, and the daily drive to work is on the longer side, with a small number working from home.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Montgomery County, Walmart, Hillsboro CUSD 3 and St. Francis Hospital are among the largest workplaces. Joblessness across the county is lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. The countryside around Fillmore is dotted with lakes and public land. Coffeen Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area, Vandalia Lake and Ramsey Lake State Recreation Area are all a short drive away. For some history, the Vandalia State House State Historic Site, a museum, is a longer drive. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 29 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Montgomery County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Montgomery County had 8,847 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 13 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ramsey weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Montgomery County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters342
- Hillsboro CUSD 3School district296FTE
- Litchfield CUSD 12School district201FTE
- St. Francis HospitalCritical access hospital172FTE
- Dometic LitchfieldTrucks, off-highway, manufacturing165
- Hillsboro Area HospitalCritical access hospital161FTE
- Kinney ContractorsRoad construction81
- Dohrn Transfer Company79
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,079 people in all across the county; Fillmore has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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 Fillmore’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 Montgomery County.
Fillmore home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fillmore$187,111
- 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 Fillmore address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fillmore — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.