Middletown, Illinois.
Typical home $104,813 (+5.8% in a year). Lincoln, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$190 (+53%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,777 +6%
- $99,036$104,813 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $2,657 +3%
- $102,156$104,813 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.
- Middletown$550
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Middletown, IL rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Middletown, Logan County, Illinois
Middletown is a village of 329 people in Logan County. Unemployment in Logan County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Logan County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Middletown is a very small Illinois village in Logan County, among the smaller places in the state. Homes here cost far less than in most of the country, and household incomes in the county are on the modest side. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a long one, so many people spend a good part of the day getting to and from work.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and government also employing many. Across Logan County, some of the largest workplaces are Eaton, Walmart and Lincoln Memorial Hospital. Jobs across the county have slipped somewhat in the past year, though unemployment there is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Lincoln's New Salem is a museum and one of the better known sites nearby, and the Lincoln Home National Historic Site is another museum, both a longer drive away. For time outdoors, Lake Springfield is a reservoir, also a longer drive away. Winters here are cold and snowy, with warm summers and a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 31 mintypical commute
What people in Logan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Logan County had 7,636 jobs in 2025, 3.1% 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 65°. About 13 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mason City 4SE weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Logan County
- EatonEaton742
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters287
- Cresco Labs - LincolnHydroponic crop farming258
- Lincoln Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital253FTE
- Ameren IllinoisElectric power transmission, control, and distribution200
- Lincoln ESD 27School district192FTE
- Sysco Central IllinoisGeneral-line groceries merchant wholesalers190
- Precision ProductsLawn and garden equipment manufacturing136
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,736 people in all across the county; Middletown has none 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Middletown’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 Logan County and the Lincoln, IL metro.
Middletown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Middletown$104,813
- 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 Middletown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Middletown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.