Pearl, Illinois.
Typical home $116,435 (+12.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$122 (+25%) since Oct 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $13,050 +13%
- $103,384$116,435 since Sep 2025
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.
- Pearl$611
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Pearl, IL rose 12.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pearl, Pike County, Illinois
Pearl is a village of 103 people in Pike County. Unemployment in Pike County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pike County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pearl is a village in Pike County, in western Illinois, and it is a small community where residents know one another. Winters are cold with a fair amount of snow, while summers are warm and wet, with rain and melted snow falling through much of the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops, and manufacturing and government also provide jobs. Across Pike County, unemployment has eased over the past year, while job numbers have edged down slightly.
Things to do. Mound House, an archaeological site in or beside town, is the closest place to see the area's past. Goldenrod, a theatre a short drive away, offers performances within easy reach. Big Sandy Creek, a river a short drive away, is another option for time outdoors.
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What people in Pike County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pike County had 3,819 jobs in 2025, 1.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 18 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the White Hall East weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pike County
- Revolution Cannabis- Barry (AWH)Hydroponic crop farming490
- Help At HomeHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical286
- Pikeland CUSD 10School district199FTE
- Illini Community HospitalCritical access hospital163FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores104
- Western CUSD 12School district96FTE
- Niemann Foods88
- Pleasant Hill CUSD 3School district86FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,647 people in all across the county; Pearl has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pearl’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 Pike County.
Pearl home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pearl$116,435
- 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 Pearl address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pearl — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.