Paris, Illinois.
Typical home $110,614 (+0.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$198 (+52%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $886 +1%
- $109,728$110,614 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $5,644 -5%
- $116,258$110,614 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.
- Paris$581
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Paris, IL rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Paris, Edgar County, Illinois
Paris is a city of 8,291 people in Edgar County. Half its households earn more than $53,927 a year and half less, against $59,941 across Edgar County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Edgar County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Paris is a small city and the seat of Edgar County in eastern Illinois. Residents are older than in most American places, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run a little below the county's as a whole, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants and hotels, and in the building trades. Paris Community Hospital, Cornerstone Building Brands and the Paris-Union school district are among the largest workplaces in town. Getting to work takes very little time, and almost no one works from home.
Things to do. Within a longer drive are the Swope Art Museum and the CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center, both museums, as well as Lincoln Trail State Park, a protected area for walking and time outdoors. Winters are cold and snowy, with a January that stays well below freezing, while July is warm, and rain and snow fall steadily through the year.
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- 3,925households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 14 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Edgar County had 7,158 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 19 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Paris Stp weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Paris
- Paris Community HospitalCritical access hospital488FTE
- Cornerstone Building BrandsScreening, window, plastics, manufacturing342
- Paris-Union SD 95School district201FTE
- GSI ParisFeed processing equipment, farm-type, manufacturing191
- Twin Lakes Extended CareNursing homes125
- Cadillac Products Packaging Company Paris PlantFilm, plastics, packaging, manufacturing107
- Haven of ParisSkilled nursing facilities103
- Paris Health and RehabNursing homes83
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,027 people in all. 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 windVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Paris’ 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 Edgar County.
Paris home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Paris$110,614
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Paris 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.
- Paris20.97%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Paris43
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Paris14
Zip codes with a Paris address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Paris — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.