Niota, Illinois.
. Fort Madison-Keokuk, IA-IL-MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$830 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Living in Niota, Hancock County, Illinois
Niota, in Hancock County, had 114 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Hancock County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hancock County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Niota is a small community in Hancock County, Illinois, where the population is far smaller than in most towns and neighbours tend to know one another. Winters are cold and snowy, while 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, or in manufacturing and local shops. Farming, forestry and mining also provide work for people in the area. Jobs in Hancock County grew over the past year, and fewer people are looking for work than a year ago.
Things to do. Nauvoo House is a museum a short drive away, and Nauvoo State Park, a protected area, is also close by. The Faeth Farmstead and Orchard District, a garden, is likewise a short drive from town.
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What people in Hancock County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hancock County had 4,257 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 68°. About 18 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fort Madison weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hancock County
- Memorial HospitalHospitals, general medical and surgical450
- Memorial Hospital AssociationCritical access hospital196FTE
- Hamilton CCSD 328School district100FTE
- Memorial HospitalAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities85
- Southeastern CUSD 337School district80FTE
- Dadant & SonsApplicators, wood, manufacturing49
- La Harpe CSD 347School district48FTE
- Warsaw CUSD 316School district46FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 785 people in all across the county; Niota has none 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 windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Niota’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 Hancock County and the Fort Madison-Keokuk, IA-IL-MO metro.
Niota home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Niota6
Zip codes with a Niota address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Niota — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.