Herrick, Illinois.
Typical home $178,392 (+9.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$489 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,683 +10%
- $162,708$178,392 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,963 +25%
- $142,429$178,392 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.
- Herrick$936
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Herrick, IL rose 9.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Herrick, Shelby County, Illinois
Herrick is a village of 358 people in Shelby County. Unemployment in Shelby County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Herrick is a very small village in Shelby County, Illinois, where neighbors are likely to know one another by sight. Homes here are priced modestly, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with snow on the ground at times, and summers turn warm, with rain or snow spread fairly evenly through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, shops, restaurants and hotels, and in schools, hospitals and social care. Across Shelby County, some of the largest workplaces are Graphic Packaging International, Walmart and Shelbyville CUSD 4. Commutes are on the long side, and a fair number of people work from home. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. A short drive away, Becks Creek offers a river to walk beside, and Ramsey Lake State Recreation Area is a protected area for time outdoors. Farther afield, Lake Shelbyville is a large reservoir for boating and fishing, and Vandalia State House State Historic Site is a museum for a day spent on local history.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shelby County had 4,919 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 13 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ramsey weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shelby County
- Graphic Packaging InternationalPaper and paperboard866
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters199
- Shelbyville CUSD 4School district192FTE
- Shelby CountyGeneral services departments, government125
- P&H MFGSemi-trailer manufacturing110
- Manor Court of ShelbyvilleSkilled nursing facilities104
- Hshs Good Shepherd HospitalCritical access hospital69FTE
- Cowden-Herrick CUSD 3ASchool district67FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,693 people in all across the county; Herrick has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- LightningVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Herrick’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 Shelby County.
Herrick home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Herrick$178,392
- 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 Herrick address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Herrick — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.