Roanoke, Illinois.
Typical home $180,169 (+10.3% in a year). Peoria, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$515 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,825 +10%
- $163,344$180,169 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,264 +38%
- $130,905$180,169 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.
- Roanoke$946
- 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 Roanoke, IL rose 10.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Roanoke, Woodford County, Illinois
Roanoke is a village of 1,960 people in Woodford County. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Woodford County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Roanoke is a small village in Woodford County where nearly everyone lives in a home they own, and the typical home costs less than many would expect elsewhere. Residents are somewhat older than in the country as a whole, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many towns. Winters are cold, with January highs just above freezing and lows well below it, and a fair amount of snow falls each year. Summers are warm, 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 manufacturing, shops, and banks, insurance and property also employing many. Across Woodford County, some of the largest workplaces are Nucor Steel, which makes prefabricated metal buildings, Metamora Community Nursing Home, and Edeco, which makes metal machine bases. The typical commute is a moderate one, and a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Metamora Courthouse State Historic Site and the Adlai E. Stevenson I House are both museums, and the Red River is close by as well. Farther afield, the Peoria Zoo is a longer drive, as is Peoria Lake for time on the water.
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- 741households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Woodford County had 11,272 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 22 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Minonk weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Woodford County
- Nucor SteelBuildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing300
- Metamora Community Nursing Home623110 nursing care facilities skilled nursing facilities285
- EdecoMachine bases, metal, manufacturing266
- Parsons CompanyPaint sticks, metal, manufacturing260
- Versa PressBooks printing254
- CaseTractors and attachments, farm-type, manufacturing221
- Apostolic Christian Home of EurekaNursing homes214
- Fieldcrest CUSD 6School district193FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,520 people in all across the county; Roanoke has two 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Roanoke’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 Woodford County and the Peoria, IL metro.
Roanoke home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Roanoke$180,169
- 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.
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.
- Roanoke8
Zip codes with a Roanoke address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Roanoke — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.