Oreana, Illinois.
Typical home $184,779 (+6.5% in a year). Decatur, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$532 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,247 +6%
- $173,532$184,779 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,822 +38%
- $133,957$184,779 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.
- Oreana$970
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Oreana, IL rose 6.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oreana, Macon County, Illinois
Oreana is a village of 891 people in Macon County. Half its households earn more than $89,000 a year and half less, against $62,666 across Macon County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Macon County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Macon 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oreana is a village in Macon County, Illinois, where nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Household incomes run well above the county's, and far fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying close to freezing, while July brings warm days, and rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops and restaurants and hotels. Across Macon County, some of the largest workplaces are Decatur Memorial Hospital, Archer Daniels Midland Company and Decatur SD 61. The drive to work is fairly typical, and a small share of people work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. A short drive away are Scovill Zoo and Lake Decatur, a large reservoir good for time on the water, along with Spring Creek, a river nearby. For a longer outing, Robert Allerton Park is a botanical garden a longer drive away, and Weldon Springs State Park offers protected woodland and trails.
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- 3%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Macon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Macon County had 45,164 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Decatur Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Macon County
- Decatur Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital1,615FTE
- Archer Daniels Midland Company942
- Decatur SD 61School district654FTE
- Archer Daniels Midland Company650
- Ameren IllinoisElectric power transmission, control, and distribution468
- Bodine Electric of DecaturLow voltage electrical work464
- Help At HomeHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical464
- PrimientWet milling corn and other vegetables450
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 122 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 16,057 people in all across the county; Oreana 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Oreana’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 Macon County and the Decatur, IL metro.
Oreana home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oreana$184,779
- 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.
- Oreana6
Zip codes with a Oreana address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oreana — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.