Lowpoint, Illinois.
Typical home $219,636 (+10.2% in a year). Peoria, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$641 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,367 +10%
- $199,269$219,636 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,429 +28%
- $171,206$219,636 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.
- Lowpoint$1,153
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Lowpoint, IL rose 10.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lowpoint, Woodford County, Illinois
Lowpoint, in Woodford County, had 148 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Woodford County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Woodford 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lowpoint is a very small community in Woodford County, Illinois, where people mostly know their neighbors and the surroundings are quiet and rural. Homes here are valued well below what the county's household incomes might suggest, which makes it an affordable corner of the area. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and there is a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops and in professional and business services. Across Woodford County, jobs were slightly fewer last year than the year before, though unemployment has since come down from where it stood a year earlier. Among the county's largest workplaces are Nucor Steel, Metamora Community Nursing Home and Edeco.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Metamora Courthouse State Historic Site and the Adlai E. Stevenson I House are both museums, and the Woodford State Fish and Wildlife Area is a protected area for time outdoors. For a longer outing, Peoria Zoo is a longer drive away.
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What people in Woodford County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Woodford County had 11,272 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 25 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lacon weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Woodford County
- Nucor SteelBuildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing300
- Metamora Community Nursing Home623110 nursing care facilities skilled nursing facilities285
- EdecoMachine bases, metal, manufacturing266
- Parsons CompanyPaint sticks, metal, manufacturing260
- Versa PressBooks printing254
- CaseTractors and attachments, farm-type, manufacturing221
- Apostolic Christian Home of EurekaNursing homes214
- Fieldcrest CUSD 6School district193FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,520 people in all across the county; Lowpoint 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lowpoint’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 Woodford County and the Peoria, IL metro.
Lowpoint home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lowpoint$219,636
- 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 Lowpoint address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lowpoint — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.