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Centralia, Illinois.

Is it a buyer's or a seller's market? Six dials, updated monthly — speed, supply and seller behaviour, not just prices.

Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Centralia listings, and the typical home goes pending in 23 days — the market is roughly in balance.

Zillow's own model expects Centralia home values to change +3.0% over the year to Sep 2027. A forecast, not a promise — it is revised every month, and Zillow publishes it with that caveat.

What it costs per month · Centralia $654/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$337 (+106%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $8,005 +7%
$116,582$124,586 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $20,239 +19%
$104,348$124,586 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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Centralia $654 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Centralia$654
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.

Typical home values in Centralia, IL rose 6.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

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.

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falling flat warming hot overheating runaway

Share of listings with a price cut

The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.

10% 20% 30% 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Centralia 21.70% United States 26.90%
10% 20% 30% 2018 2022 2026
  • Centralia21.70%
  • United States26.90%

Days to pending

How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.

20 30 40 50 2026 Centralia 23 United States 27
20 30 40 50 2026
  • Centralia23
  • United States27

Homes for sale

Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.

100 150 200 250 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Centralia 123
100 150 200 250 2018 2022 2026
  • Centralia123

New listings per month

Sellers arriving at the market.

20 30 40 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Centralia 37
20 30 40 2018 2022 2026
  • Centralia37

Median sale price

What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.

$100,000 $200,000 $300,000 2025 2026 Centralia $113,563 United States $371,407
$100,000 $200,000 $300,000 2025 2026
  • Centralia$113,563
  • United States$371,407

Sale-to-list ratio

Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.

94% 95% 96% 2026 Centralia 96.55%
94% 95% 96% 2026
  • Centralia96.55%