Forsyth, Illinois.
Typical home $312,171 (+4.8% in a year). Decatur, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$867 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,410 +5%
- $297,761$312,171 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,219 +32%
- $235,951$312,171 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.
- Forsyth$1,639
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Forsyth, IL rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Forsyth, Macon County, Illinois
Forsyth is a village of 3,734 people in Macon County. Half its households earn more than $112,000 a year and half less, against $62,666 across Macon County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Macon County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Forsyth is a village in Macon County, Illinois, and most of the homes here are lived in by their owners, a higher share than is typical across the country. Household incomes run well above the county's, and many adults hold a four-year degree. Residents are somewhat older than the national average, and commutes are short.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, professional and business services, and other services. Some of the largest workplaces in Forsyth are Menards, a home center, Arcadia, a skilled nursing facility, and VON Maur, a department store. Across Macon County, the number of jobs grew only slightly last year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Scovill Zoo and Lake Decatur, a reservoir, are both a short drive away, and so is Rock Springs Conservation Area, a protected area for walking and time outdoors. Farther afield, Robert Allerton Park, a botanical garden, is a longer drive. Winters are cold with some snow, and summers are warm, so outdoor outings are best planned around the season.
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- 1,252households
- 59%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Macon County had 45,164 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 66°. About 14 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Decatur Wtp weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Forsyth
- Menards"home centers"170
- ArcadiaSkilled nursing facilities150
- VON MaurDepartment stores57
- Forsyth HospitalityHotels32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 409 people in all. 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Forsyth’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 Macon County and the Decatur, IL metro.
Forsyth home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Forsyth$312,171
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Forsyth9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Forsyth6
Zip codes with a Forsyth address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Forsyth — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.