New Berlin, Illinois.
Typical home $196,660 (+6.9% in a year). Springfield, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$541 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,611 +7%
- $184,049$196,660 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,821 +35%
- $145,839$196,660 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.
- New Berlin$1,032
- 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 New Berlin, IL rose 6.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in New Berlin, Sangamon County, Illinois
New Berlin is a village of 1,381 people in Sangamon County. Half its households earn more than $70,179 a year and half less, against $75,357 across Sangamon County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Sangamon County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sangamon County work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. New Berlin is a small village in Sangamon County, with a population that is easy to know by sight. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by government, professional and business services, and shops. The county's largest workplaces include Springfield Memorial Hospital, St. Johns Hospital and Springfield Schools. A typical commute is a short one, and a fair number of residents work from home. Jobs across the county slipped last year, while unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Waverly Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Lincoln Home National Historic Site and the Old State Capitol State Historic Site, both museums tied to the life and career of Abraham Lincoln. Lake Springfield, another reservoir, is also a longer drive from the village.
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- 626households
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What people in Sangamon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sangamon County had 130,936 jobs in 2025, 2.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Springfield #2 weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sangamon County
- Springfield Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital3,185FTE
- St. Johns HospitalGeneral hospital1,892FTE
- Springfield SD 186School district1,500FTE
- State of Illinois, Department of Innovation and TechnologyComputer program or software development, custom1,378
- General office/parole/ATCs/adult edCorrectional institutions1,179
- City of SpringfieldCity and town managers' offices1,038
- State ofState tax commissions1,016
- University of Illinois SpringfieldUniversity or college879
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 170 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 30,938 people in all across the county; New Berlin has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in New Berlin’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 Sangamon County and the Springfield, IL metro.
New Berlin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- New Berlin$196,660
- 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.
Zip codes with a New Berlin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls New Berlin — 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.