Sheldon, Illinois.
Typical home $70,761 (+4.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$145 (+64%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $3,131 +5%
- $67,630$70,761 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.
- Sheldon$371
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Sheldon, IL rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sheldon, Iroquois County, Illinois
Sheldon is a village of 965 people in Iroquois County. Half its households earn more than $44,280 a year and half less, against $66,255 across Iroquois County. Unemployment in Iroquois County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sheldon is a small village in Iroquois County, home to fewer people than most towns of its kind. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and homes are priced modestly. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades and in manufacturing. The commute is typical for a rural area, and very few people work from home. Across Iroquois County, the biggest employers include Walmart, Prairieview Lutheran Homes and the Central CUSD 4 school district, and the county has fewer jobs than a year earlier.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the Iroquois River is a longer drive away, as is J C Murphey Lake, a reservoir. The Kankakee National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation Area, a protected area, is also a longer drive, and gives a chance to walk and watch wildlife.
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- 551households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 21 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Iroquois County had 7,015 jobs in 2025, 4.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kentland weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Iroquois County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters222
- Prairieview Lutheran HomesSkilled nursing facilities213
- Central CUSD 4School district187FTE
- Iroquois West CUSD 10School district166FTE
- Nexus Onarga Family HealingMental health facilities, residential164
- T&D Metal ProductsCold rolling steel shapes made from purchased steel161
- Iroquois Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital151FTE
- LyonShowcases manufacturing142
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,886 people in all across the county; Sheldon has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sheldon’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Iroquois County.
Sheldon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sheldon$70,761
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sheldon6
Zip codes with a Sheldon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sheldon — 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.