Hammond, Illinois.
Typical home $167,145 (+10.6% in a year). Champaign-Urbana, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$505 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,078 +11%
- $151,067$167,145 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,485 +48%
- $112,660$167,145 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.
- Hammond$877
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Hammond, IL rose 10.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hammond, Piatt County, Illinois
Hammond is a village of 508 people in Piatt County. Half its households earn more than $77,019 a year and half less, against $94,811 across Piatt County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Piatt County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Piatt County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hammond is a very small village in Piatt County, Illinois, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run below the county's, and the typical home value is modest. Winters are cold, with January highs a little above freezing and lows well below it, and summers turn warm in July. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Piatt County, some of the largest workplaces are Kirby Hospital, Monticello CUSD 25 and Haven of Bement. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The best known places nearby are all a longer drive away. Robert Allerton Park is a botanical garden, the Krannert Art Museum is an art museum, and Scovill Zoo is a zoo. For a quieter outing, Fort Daniel Conservation Area is a park.
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- 5%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Piatt County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Piatt County had 3,776 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Decatur Airport weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Piatt County
- Kirby HospitalCritical access hospital247FTE
- Monticello CUSD 25School district237FTE
- Haven of BementSkilled nursing facilities94
- Central Illinois Manufacturing Co, Cim-Tek FiltrationFilters automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing93
- Niemann Foods76
- Cerro Gordo CUSD 100School district72FTE
- White Construction - ProsperityWind power structure construction62
- Deland-Weldon CUSD 57School district49FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 928 people in all across the county; Hammond has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Hammond’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 Piatt County and the Champaign-Urbana, IL metro.
Hammond home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hammond$167,145
- 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.
- Hammond5
Zip codes with a Hammond address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hammond — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.