Pierron, Illinois.
Typical home $136,599 (+18.0% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$347 (+94%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $20,833 +18%
- $115,766$136,599 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $22,758 +20%
- $113,841$136,599 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.
- Pierron$717
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Pierron, IL rose 18.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pierron, Bond County, Illinois
Pierron is a village of 459 people in Bond County. Unemployment in Bond County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bond County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pierron is a very small village in Bond County, Illinois, where homes are valued well below what is typical across the country. Few adults here have a four-year degree, and household incomes across Bond County sit near the middle of what many Illinois counties see. The commute to work is an ordinary one for a rural area, and only a small share of people work from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with restaurants, hotels and entertainment, manufacturing and shops close behind. Across Bond County, the largest workplaces include Bond County CUSD 2, Greenville University and Greenville Regional Hospital. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, while the number of jobs has stayed almost level.
Things to do. Carlyle Lake is a reservoir, a longer drive away, and a natural choice for a day near the water. Cahokia, also a longer drive away, is a well-known archaeological site that draws visitors from across the region. Lewis and Clark State Historic Site is a museum, likewise a longer drive away, and a good stop for anyone curious about the area's history.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 23 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Bond County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bond County had 4,518 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Carlyle Rsvr weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bond County
- Bond County CUSD 2School district356FTE
- Greenville UniversityUniversity or college239
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice156
- Donnewald Distributing CompanyBeverages, alcoholic, merchant wholesalers143
- MallinckrodtMedicinal chemicals, uncompounded, manufacturing89
- Greenville Regional HospitalGeneral hospital76FTE
- Enertech GlobalAir-conditioners, unit, manufacturing69
- Masa MillingBakery products, fresh, made in commercial bakeries65
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 828 people in all across the county; Pierron has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pierron’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 Bond County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Pierron home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pierron$136,599
- 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 Pierron address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pierron — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.