Greenup, Illinois.
Typical home $150,856 (+4.4% in a year). Charleston-Mattoon, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$245 (+45%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,310 +4%
- $144,546$150,856 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $8,923 -6%
- $159,779$150,856 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.
- Greenup$792
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Greenup, IL rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Greenup, Cumberland County, Illinois
Greenup is a village of 1,365 people in Cumberland County. Half its households earn more than $51,417 a year and half less, against $73,327 across Cumberland County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Cumberland County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Greenup is a village in Cumberland County, Illinois, a small place where neighbors tend to know one another. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population is on the younger side for a small town. Household incomes run below the county's, and a four-year degree is held by a smaller share of adults than in many towns. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers get hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many people. Across Cumberland County, the largest workplaces include Cumberland CUSD 77, a school district, Sheridan, a nursing home operator, and Brighton Cabinetry, a maker of wood cabinets. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs there has barely changed. The typical commute is short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site, a protected area, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Fox Ridge State Park and Lincoln Trail State Park are protected areas for walking and time outdoors, and each is a longer drive away. Lake Charleston, a reservoir, is also a longer drive.
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- 807households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cumberland County had 2,889 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 12 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Casey weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cumberland County
- Cumberland CUSD 77School district105FTE
- SheridanNursing homes94
- Brighton Cabinetry OSHACabinets, kitchen, stock or custom wood, manufacturing83
- Neoga CUSD 3School district82FTE
- Beck's NeogaCorn farming, field and seed production25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 202 people in all across the county; Greenup has none of its own. 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Greenup’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 Cumberland County and the Charleston-Mattoon, IL metro.
Greenup home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Greenup$150,856
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Greenup7
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Greenup address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Greenup — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.