Iuka, Illinois.
Typical home $180,975 (+10.0% in a year). Centralia, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$476 (+100%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $16,396 +10%
- $164,579$180,975 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,573 +20%
- $151,403$180,975 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.
- Iuka$950
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Iuka, IL rose 10.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Iuka, Marion County, Illinois
Iuka is a village of 512 people in Marion County. Half its households earn more than $61,146 a year and half less, against $61,240 across Marion County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Marion County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Marion County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Iuka is a small village where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, a far higher share of owner-occupied homes than is usual for the country. Residents are somewhat younger than in many small towns, and household incomes sit very close to the county's. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn hot, with plenty of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many people. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one, so most travel to jobs elsewhere in the county. Across Marion County, the largest workplaces include North American Lighting, SSM Health ST. Marys Hospital and Walmart.
Things to do. Stephen A. Forbes State Recreation Area, a protected area, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Big Muddy River and to Sam Dale Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area, which suit anyone who likes time by the water.
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- 183households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Marion County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marion County had 12,335 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 67°. About 10 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Salem weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marion County
- North American LightingMotor vehicle electrical and electronic equipment manufacturing1,078
- SSM Health St. Marys HospitalGeneral hospital385FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters280
- Centralia HSD 200School district261FTE
- American Bath GroupPlumbing fixtures, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing243
- Radiac AbrasivesAbrasive products manufacturing220
- Salem Township HospitalCritical access hospital184FTE
- Conagra BrandsCommercial bakeries181
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 42 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,146 people in all across the county; Iuka has one 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
- Strong windVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Iuka’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Marion County and the Centralia, IL metro.
Iuka home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Iuka$180,975
- 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.
- Iuka5
Zip codes with a Iuka address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Iuka — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.