Lovington, Illinois.
Typical home $170,080 (+7.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$538 (+152%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,726 +7%
- $158,354$170,080 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,526 +42%
- $119,554$170,080 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.
- Lovington$893
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Lovington, IL rose 7.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lovington, Moultrie County, Illinois
Lovington is a village of 1,069 people in Moultrie County. Half its households earn more than $55,556 a year and half less, against $71,784 across Moultrie County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Moultrie County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lovington is a small village in Moultrie County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values sit at a modest level. Household incomes run below the county's, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with snow on the ground at times, and summers turn warm, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, the building trades, shops, and schools, hospitals and social care. Across Moultrie County, the largest workplaces include Masterbrand, which makes kitchen cabinets, Hydro-Gear in Sullivan, which makes hydrostatic drives, and Agri-Fab, which makes lawn and garden equipment. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs, and the typical commute is a fairly short drive.
Things to do. Robert Allerton Park is a botanical garden, a longer drive away and the best known of the nearby places. Scovill Zoo is another longer drive, and Lake Shelbyville, a reservoir, is also a longer drive for time on the water. Wolf Creek State Park, a protected area, is another longer drive for walking and time outdoors.
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- 460households
- 6%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Moultrie County had 5,171 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° 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 Sullivan 3S weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Moultrie County
- MasterbrandKitchen cabinets, stock or custom wood, manufacturing505
- Hydro-Gear, SullivanHydrostatic drives manufacturing461
- Agri-FabLawn and garden equipment manufacturing256
- Sullivan CUSD 300School district174FTE
- Bruder Tank128
- Okaw Valley CUSD 302School district104FTE
- Marvin Keller TruckingGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload101
- Moultrie County BeaconIntellectual and developmental disability homes100
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,985 people in all across the county; Lovington 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lovington’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 Moultrie County.
Lovington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lovington$170,080
- 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.
- Lovington5
Zip codes with a Lovington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lovington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.