Mount Pulaski, Illinois.
Typical home $156,771 (+9.6% in a year). Lincoln, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$430 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,721 +10%
- $143,050$156,771 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,445 +35%
- $116,326$156,771 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.
- Mount Pulaski$823
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Mount Pulaski, IL rose 9.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Pulaski, Logan County, Illinois
Mount Pulaski is a city of 1,537 people in Logan County. Half its households earn more than $66,176 a year and half less, against $66,358 across Logan County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mount Pulaski is a small city in Logan County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes sit very close to the county's. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many places, and the daily drive to work is a modest one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and government also employing many people. Across Logan County, some of the largest workplaces are Eaton, Lincoln Memorial Hospital and Ameren Illinois. Jobs across the county have dipped over the past year, though unemployment there is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. The Mount Pulaski Courthouse State Historic Site is a museum in or beside town, an easy stop for anyone who lives here or is passing through. Edward R. Madigan State Fish and Wildlife Area is a protected area a short drive away. For a longer outing, Lake Springfield is a reservoir a longer drive away, and Lincoln Home National Historic Site is a museum in the same longer-drive range.
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- 650households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
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 34° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 19 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lincoln weather station, 10 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; Mount Pulaski has one 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mount Pulaski’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Mount Pulaski home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Pulaski$156,771
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Mount Pulaski address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Pulaski — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Mount Pulaski
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 62548 | Mount Pulaski | 2,090 | — | $157,636 |
| 62634 | Elkhart | 1,263 | — | $167,323 |