Moweaqua, Illinois.
Typical home $167,530 (+5.8% in a year). Taylorville, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$491 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,138 +6%
- $158,392$167,530 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,766 +34%
- $124,764$167,530 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.
- Moweaqua$879
- 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 Moweaqua, IL rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Moweaqua, Shelby County, Illinois
Moweaqua is a village of 1,764 people in Shelby County. Half its households earn more than $69,625 a year and half less, against $72,095 across Shelby County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Shelby County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Moweaqua is a small village in Shelby County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and where incomes run a little below the county's. Few residents live below the poverty line, and homes sit at a modest price for the region. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services close behind. Across Shelby County, some of the largest workplaces are Graphic Packaging International, a paper and paperboard maker, Walmart, and the Shelbyville school district. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year. Few people work from home, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in many places.
Things to do. Macon Speedway, a race track, is a short drive away. Lake Shelbyville, a large reservoir, and Scovill Zoo are both a longer drive away, and Wolf Creek State Park, a protected area, is another longer trip for a day outdoors.
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- 789households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shelby County had 4,919 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 66°. About 14 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Decatur Wtp weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shelby County
- Graphic Packaging InternationalPaper and paperboard866
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters199
- Shelbyville CUSD 4School district192FTE
- Shelby CountyGeneral services departments, government125
- P&H MFGSemi-trailer manufacturing110
- Manor Court of ShelbyvilleSkilled nursing facilities104
- Hshs Good Shepherd HospitalCritical access hospital69FTE
- Cowden-Herrick CUSD 3ASchool district67FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,693 people in all across the county; Moweaqua 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
- LightningVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Moweaqua’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 Shelby County and the Taylorville, IL metro.
Moweaqua home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Moweaqua$167,530
- 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.
- Moweaqua17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Moweaqua address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Moweaqua — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.