Secor, Illinois.
Typical home $196,478 (+4.4% in a year). Peoria, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$500 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,212 +4%
- $188,266$196,478 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,974 +17%
- $167,504$196,478 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.
- Secor$1,031
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Secor, IL rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Secor, Woodford County, Illinois
Secor is a village of 342 people in Woodford County. 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 people in Woodford County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Secor is a small village in Woodford County, home to far fewer people than most towns and with the quiet that comes with that. Homes here are valued below what is typical for much of the country, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while July is warm and the year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Woodford County, some of the largest workplaces are Nucor Steel, Metamora Community Nursing Home and Edeco. The county has seen a small dip in the number of jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is lower than it was a year earlier. The commute is a middling one, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. Evergreen Lake, a reservoir, and the Red River are both a short drive away, suited to time on the water or along the bank. For a longer outing, the Peoria Zoo is a drive away, as is Fort Crevecoeur, a fort tied to the area's early history.
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- 121households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What people in Woodford County 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 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 22 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Congerville 2NW weather station, 10 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; Secor has none 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Secor’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.
Secor home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Secor$196,478
- 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 Secor address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Secor — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.