Minier, Illinois.
Typical home $181,175 (+6.9% in a year). Peoria, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$525 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,693 +7%
- $169,482$181,175 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,657 +41%
- $128,519$181,175 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.
- Minier$951
- 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 Minier, IL rose 6.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Minier, Tazewell County, Illinois
Minier is a village of 1,154 people in Tazewell County. Half its households earn more than $88,542 a year and half less, against $77,982 across Tazewell County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Tazewell County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tazewell 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Minier is a small village in Tazewell County, Illinois, where most homes are lived in by their owners and residents are younger than in much of the country. Household incomes run above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. A typical home here costs less than many would guess, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than not. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, while summers turn warm in July, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Tazewell County, some of the largest workplaces are Illinois Central College, Morton CUSD and Boyd Gaming. Unemployment in the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before. A typical commute is a short one, and a small group of residents work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Spider Hill is an amusement park, and the Mackinaw River State Fish and Wildlife Area is a protected area for time outdoors. The Little Mackinaw River also lies a short drive from town. For a longer outing, Peoria Zoo is a longer drive away.
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- 435households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Tazewell County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tazewell County had 46,709 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bloomington 5W weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tazewell County
- Morton Parts Distribution CenterMining machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers1,625
- Illinois Central CollegeTwo-year college868
- Help At HomeHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical792
- Morton CUSD 709School district619FTE
- Boyd GamingHotel casino438
- Pekin PSD 108School district408FTE
- Morton IndustriesMachine shops388
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters376
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 162 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 18,253 people in all across the county; Minier has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Minier’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 Tazewell County and the Peoria, IL metro.
Minier home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Minier$181,175
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Minier address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Minier — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.