Noble, Illinois.
Typical home $134,212 (+9.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$286 (+68%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,925 +10%
- $122,287$134,212 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $7,604 +6%
- $126,608$134,212 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.
- Noble$704
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 59 years.
Typical home values in Noble, IL rose 9.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Noble, Richland County, Illinois
Noble is a village of 633 people in Richland County. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Richland County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Richland County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Noble is a small village in Richland County, Illinois, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and a light covering of snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Richland County, some of the largest workplaces are Richland Memorial Hospital, Richland County CUSD 1 and Olney Central College. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before, and very few people in the village work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the Fox River is a river within a longer drive. Newton Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area is a protected area, also a longer drive away. Red Hills State Park is another protected area within a longer drive, suited to a day out in the country.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
- 21 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Richland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Richland County had 5,731 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 10 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Olney 2S weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Richland County
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage998
- Richland Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital317FTE
- Richland County CUSD 1School district314FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters247
- Olney Central CollegeTwo-year college119
- Prairie Farms OlneyMilk processing manufacturing110
- IGC HoldingsEngineers' offices101
- Illinois Eastern Community College-System OfficeTwo-year college92
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,227 people in all across the county; Noble has none 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
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Noble’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 Richland County.
Noble home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Noble$134,212
- 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.
Zip codes with a Noble address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Noble — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.