Robinson, Illinois.
Typical home $110,957 (-13.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$53 (+10%) since Feb 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $16,543 -13%
- $127,500$110,957 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.
- Robinson$582
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Robinson, IL fell 13.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Robinson, Crawford County, Illinois
Robinson is a city of 7,150 people in Crawford County. Half its households earn more than $73,993 a year and half less, against $71,674 across Crawford County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Crawford County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Robinson is a small city in Crawford County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and homes cost less than in much of the country. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and the population is somewhat older than the national average. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing and restaurants and hotels also employing a good number. The largest workplaces in Robinson include Hershey's Chocolate, Crawford Memorial Hospital and the Robinson school district. Commutes are short, and unemployment across Crawford County has eased compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. Close to town, Fife Opera House is a theatre a short drive away, and Crawford County State Fish and Wildlife Area is a protected area for time outdoors, also a short drive away. For history, Fort Lamotte is a fort a short drive from town. George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, a museum, lies a longer drive away.
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- 2,587households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 13 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Crawford County had 7,629 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Robinson weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Robinson
- Hershey's Chocolate - RobinsonCandy bars, chocolate, made from cacao beans1,012
- Crawford Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital343FTE
- Robinson CUSD 2School district300FTE
- Robinson Correctional CenterCorrectional institutions285
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters248
- Lincoln Trail CollegeTwo-year college103
- Lytle Electric CompanyElectrical contractors96
- RobinsonMail and parcel delivery28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,305 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of RobinsonRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of RobinsonRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Robinson’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Crawford County.
Robinson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Robinson$110,957
- 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 Robinson listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Robinson22.20%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Robinson39
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Robinson9
Zip codes with a Robinson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Robinson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.