Glenarm, Illinois.
Typical home $295,203 (+8.6% in a year). Springfield, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$838 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,364 +9%
- $271,839$295,203 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $84,591 +40%
- $210,612$295,203 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.
- Glenarm$1,549
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Glenarm, IL rose 8.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Glenarm, Sangamon County, Illinois
The Census does not count Glenarm on its own, so the figures here are Sangamon County's. Half the county's households earn more than $75,357 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 71% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Sangamon County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sangamon County work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Glenarm is a village in Sangamon County, in the central part of Illinois, close to Springfield, the county seat. Across Sangamon County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and winters are cold and snowy while summers are warm. Rain falls steadily through the year, so the seasons here are clearly marked.
Work. Many residents of the area work in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in professional and business services, or in shops. Unemployment across Sangamon County is lower than it was a year earlier, though the number of jobs fell slightly over the past year. Most people commute to a workplace rather than working from home, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. Lincoln Home National Historic Site, one of the best known museums nearby, is a longer drive away. The Henson Robinson Zoo is a short drive away and makes a easy outing for a day. Lake Springfield, a reservoir a short drive away, is a pleasant place for a relaxed afternoon outdoors.
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- 84,762households
- 41.0median age
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What people in Sangamon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sangamon County had 130,936 jobs in 2025, 2.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 68°. About 16 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Virden weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sangamon County
- Springfield Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital3,185FTE
- St. Johns HospitalGeneral hospital1,892FTE
- Springfield SD 186School district1,500FTE
- State of Illinois, Department of Innovation and TechnologyComputer program or software development, custom1,378
- General office/parole/ATCs/adult edCorrectional institutions1,179
- City of SpringfieldCity and town managers' offices1,038
- State ofState tax commissions1,016
- University of Illinois SpringfieldUniversity or college879
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 170 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 30,938 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Sangamon 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 Sangamon County and the Springfield, IL metro.
Glenarm home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glenarm$295,203
- 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 Glenarm address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glenarm — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.