Martinton, Illinois.
Typical home $192,974 (+4.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$533 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,609 +4%
- $185,365$192,974 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,667 +28%
- $150,306$192,974 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.
- Martinton$1,013
- 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 Martinton, IL rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Martinton, Iroquois County, Illinois
Martinton is a village of 334 people in Iroquois County. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Iroquois County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Iroquois 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Martinton is a small village in Iroquois County, home to a population that skews older than much of the country. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, far more than across the county as a whole, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs only just above freezing and lows well below it, and summers turn warm by July. Snow falls in modest amounts each year, and the rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year overall.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Very few work from home. Across Iroquois County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Prairieview Lutheran Homes and the Central CUSD 4 school district. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. The closest outdoor spot is the Iroquois County State Wildlife Area, a protected area a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Kankakee River State Park, a protected area along the river, and to J C Murphey Lake, a reservoir. These make for quiet days of walking, birdwatching or time by the water.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Iroquois County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Iroquois County had 7,015 jobs in 2025, 4.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 17 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Watseka Northwest weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Iroquois County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters222
- Prairieview Lutheran HomesSkilled nursing facilities213
- Central CUSD 4School district187FTE
- Iroquois West CUSD 10School district166FTE
- Nexus Onarga Family HealingMental health facilities, residential164
- T&D Metal ProductsCold rolling steel shapes made from purchased steel161
- Iroquois Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital151FTE
- LyonShowcases manufacturing142
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,886 people in all across the county; Martinton 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- 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 Martinton’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 Iroquois County.
Martinton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Martinton$192,974
- 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 Martinton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Martinton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.