Hamburg, Illinois.
Typical home $188,129 (+3.6% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$339 (+52%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $6,607 +4%
- $181,522$188,129 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $578 -0%
- $188,707$188,129 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.
- Hamburg$987
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Hamburg, IL rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hamburg, Calhoun County, Illinois
Hamburg is a village of 99 people in Calhoun County. Unemployment in Calhoun County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Calhoun County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hamburg is a small village in Calhoun County, Illinois, where people know one another. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and snow and rain both arrive in good measure through the year. Few adults here hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, while others work in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, or in the building trades. Across Calhoun County, unemployment has come down over the past year.
Things to do. Bryants Creek runs in or beside the village, so the water is close at hand. Goldenrod, a theatre, is a short drive away, and the Clarence Cannon National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is also a short drive off.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
What people in Calhoun County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Calhoun County had 744 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 16 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elsberry South weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Calhoun County
- Calhoun CUSD 40School district86FTE
- Brussels CUSD 42School district28FTE
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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hamburg’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 Calhoun County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Hamburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hamburg$188,129
- 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.
- Hamburg5
Zip codes with a Hamburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hamburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.