Shumway, Illinois.
Typical home $213,123 (+3.4% in a year). Effingham, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$571 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,029 +3%
- $206,094$213,123 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,822 +24%
- $171,301$213,123 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.
- Shumway$1,119
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Shumway, IL rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Shumway, Effingham County, Illinois
Shumway is a village of 188 people in Effingham County. Half its households earn more than $82,159 a year and half less, against $80,404 across Effingham County. Unemployment in Effingham County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Effingham 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Shumway is a very small village in Effingham County, Illinois, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with a modest amount of snow, and summers turn hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Effingham County, some of the largest workplaces are Stevens Industries, which makes wood cabinets and furniture, and Walmart. The commute to work is short, and the county has seen a slight rise in jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Hidden Springs State Forest, a protected area, and Lake Sara, a reservoir, are both a short drive away and suit walking, fishing and time outdoors. Lake Shelbyville, a larger reservoir, and Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site, a protected area tied to the Lincoln family, are a longer drive away and make good day trips.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 17 mintypical commute
What people in Effingham County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Effingham County had 23,401 jobs in 2025, 0.7% 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 88° and lows near 66°. About 15 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Effingham 3SW weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Effingham County
- The Sherwin-Williams CompanyGeneral warehousing and storage609
- Patterson Technolgy CenterDental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers559
- Plastics524
- Stevens IndustriesWood cabinet and furniture manufacturing500
- SIMOS Insourcing SolutionsStaffing460
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters381
- St. Anthonys Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital356FTE
- Three Z PrintingPrinting, engraving, on paper products345
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 75 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,894 people in all across the county; Shumway has none of its own. Hospitals come 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Shumway’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 Effingham County and the Effingham, IL metro.
Shumway home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Shumway$213,123
- 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.
- Shumway5
Zip codes with a Shumway address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Shumway — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.