Oquawka, Illinois.
Typical home $103,677 (+0.6% in a year). Burlington, IA-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$172 (+46%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $587 +1%
- $103,090$103,677 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $8,452 -8%
- $112,130$103,677 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.
- Oquawka$544
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Oquawka, IL rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oquawka, Henderson County, Illinois
Oquawka is a village of 1,134 people in Henderson County. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Henderson County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Henderson County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oquawka is a small village in Henderson County, Illinois, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own rather than rent. Typical home values are modest, and incomes across the county sit below the Illinois middle. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few people work from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehousing close behind. Across Henderson County, the largest workplaces include West Central CUSD, the Henderson County Retirement Center and Consolidated Grain & Barge. Commutes tend to be fairly long, and the county has added jobs over the past year while unemployment has eased from a year earlier.
Things to do. Delabar State Park is a protected area in or beside town, and Big River State Forest is another protected area a short drive away. Crapo Park, a botanical garden, is a longer drive away. Winters are cold, with snow most years, and summers are warm, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
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- 500households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 29 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Henderson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Henderson County had 1,176 jobs in 2025, 2.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 67°. About 17 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gladstone Dam weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Henderson County
- West Central CUSD 235School district172FTE
- Henderson County Retirement CenterNursing homes88
- Consolidated Grain & BargeGrain elevators merchant wholesalers grain71
- Straitline TransportationMotor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload70
- Henderson County Rural Health ClinicCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient39
- Nutrien Ag SolutionsFarm supplies merchant wholesalers33
- Henderson County Rural Health ClinicCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 322 people in all across the county; Oquawka has one of its own. 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
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Oquawka’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 Henderson County and the Burlington, IA-IL metro.
Oquawka home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oquawka$103,677
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Oquawka address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oquawka — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.