Newton, Illinois.
Typical home $161,364 (+8.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$455 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,056 +8%
- $149,308$161,364 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,789 +27%
- $126,575$161,364 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.
- Newton$847
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Newton, IL rose 8.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Newton, Jasper County, Illinois
Newton is a city of 2,777 people in Jasper County. Half its households earn more than $61,761 a year and half less, against $74,755 across Jasper County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Jasper County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Newton is a small city in Jasper County, Illinois, where the population is older than in many places and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's overall, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and summers warm, with some snow in winter and a fair amount of rain and melted snow over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Among the largest workplaces in Newton are Jasper County, Jasper County CUD 1 Schools and Advantage Tank Lines. Commutes are fairly short, and relatively few people work from home.
Things to do. Sam Parr State Fish and Wildlife Area and Newton Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area are both protected areas a short drive away. Prairie Ridge State Natural Area is another protected area close by. The North Fork Embarras River is a longer drive away.
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- 1,298households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jasper County had 2,147 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 67°. About 16 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newton weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Newton
- Jasper CountyGeneral services departments, government132
- Jasper County CUD 1 SchoolsSchool district115FTE
- Advantage Tank Lines 20328 - SouthernTanker trucking41
- City of NewtonCity and town councils36
- Helia Healthcare of NewtonSkilled nursing facilities32
- Meridian Senior Living623312 assisted living facilities for the elderly28
- Sloan Implement CompanyPower equipment stores, outdoor24
- NewtonMail and parcel delivery20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 313 people in all. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Newton’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 Jasper County.
Newton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newton$161,364
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Newton listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Newton18.84%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Newton23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Newton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.