Seymour, Illinois.
Typical home $308,783 (+9.8% in a year). Champaign-Urbana, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$924 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $27,645 +10%
- $281,138$308,783 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $82,989 +37%
- $225,794$308,783 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.
- Seymour$1,621
- 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 Seymour, IL rose 9.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Seymour, Champaign County, Illinois
Seymour, in Champaign County, had 317 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Champaign County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Champaign County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Seymour is a very small community in Champaign County, Illinois, with a population that counts among the smallest of any town in the area. Homes here are typically valued well above what the county's household incomes might suggest, so buyers tend to be settled and established. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July. Across a year the town gets a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in shops. Across Champaign County, the largest workplaces include the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Carle Foundation Hospital. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs there has grown only slightly.
Things to do. A short drive away, Mabery Gelvin Botanical Garden offers a garden to walk through, and the Monticello Railway Museum is a museum for anyone who likes trains. Dodds Park, also a short drive away, is a park for time outdoors. Farther afield, Robert Allerton Park is a botanical garden and the Krannert Art Museum is a museum, both a longer drive away.
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What people in Champaign County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Champaign County had 95,049 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more 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 84° and lows near 62°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Champaign Southwest weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Champaign County
- University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUniversity or college12,905
- Carle Foundation HospitalGeneral hospital3,498FTE
- Champaign CUSD 4School district1,953FTE
- University of Illinois System OfficesUniversity or college1,057
- FedExCourier and express delivery services1,031
- Urbana SD 116School district805FTE
- Parkland CollegeTwo-year college724
- Mahomet-Seymour CUSD 3School district533FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 205 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 64,246 people in all across the county; Seymour has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Seymour’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 Champaign County and the Champaign-Urbana, IL metro.
Seymour home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Seymour$308,783
- 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 Seymour address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Seymour — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.