Minonk, Illinois.
Typical home $167,060 (+5.4% in a year). Peoria, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$414 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,519 +5%
- $158,540$167,060 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,627 +21%
- $138,432$167,060 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.
- Minonk$877
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Minonk, IL rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Minonk, Woodford County, Illinois
Minonk is a city of 1,928 people in Woodford County. Half its households earn more than $69,352 a year and half less, against $91,483 across Woodford County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. 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 residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Minonk is a small city where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the share of owners is higher than in many places. Incomes here run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, with snow through the season, and summers turn warm, with a steady amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in banks, insurance and property. Across Woodford County, the largest workplaces include Nucor Steel, Metamora Community Nursing Home and Edeco. Commutes are fairly long, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Starved Rock State Park and Matthiessen State Park are protected areas, each a longer drive away. Evergreen Lake, a reservoir, is also a longer drive away. The Adlai E. Stevenson I House is a museum, likewise a longer drive from town.
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- 840households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents 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 33° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 22 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Minonk weather station, under a mile 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; Minonk has two 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Minonk’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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.
Minonk home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Minonk$167,060
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Minonk10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Minonk address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Minonk — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Minonk
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 61738 | El Paso | 4,099 | — | $209,427 |
| 61760 | Minonk | 2,226 | — | $161,878 |