Graymont, Illinois.
Typical home $256,761 (+8.7% in a year). Pontiac, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$610 (+83%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $20,484 +9%
- $236,277$256,761 since Sep 2025
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.
- Graymont$1,348
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Graymont, IL rose 8.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Graymont, Livingston County, Illinois
The Census does not count Graymont on its own, so the figures here are Livingston County's. Half the county's households earn more than $73,790 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 74% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Livingston County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Livingston 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Graymont is a small town in Livingston County, Illinois, where most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Across the county, the typical resident is middle-aged, and incomes are a little below the usual level. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and the year is fairly wet.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, with others in shops and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and jobs grew slightly last year. Most people drive to work, and relatively few work from home.
Things to do. Rooks Creek is a river a short drive away, suited to a quiet outing by the water. Fell Arboretum, a botanical garden a longer drive off, offers walks among planted trees and gardens. Lake Bloomington, a reservoir, is another longer drive for those who enjoy time on the water.
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- 14,615households
- 41.8median age
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Livingston County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Livingston County had 13,918 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 66°. About 25 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pontiac weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Livingston County
- Pontiac FacilityDiesel and semidiesel engines manufacturing918
- Vactor ManufacturingHeavy trucks assembling on purchased chassis765
- Pontiac Correctional CenterCorrectional institutions458
- OSF Healthcare SJJWAMCHospitals, general medical and surgical383
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters332
- DWT - Aldi329
- WilliamIntellectual and developmental disability facilities, residential279
- Livingston CountyGovernment base facilities operation support services278
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 45 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,548 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 moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Livingston County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Livingston County and the Pontiac, IL metro.
Graymont home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Graymont$256,761
- 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 Graymont address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Graymont — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.