Sigel, Illinois.
Typical home $219,149 (+14.7% in a year). Charleston-Mattoon, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$674 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $28,117 +15%
- $191,033$219,149 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,791 +37%
- $160,358$219,149 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.
- Sigel$1,150
- 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 Sigel, IL rose 14.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sigel, Cumberland County, Illinois
Sigel is a town of 329 people in Cumberland County. Half its households earn more than $85,625 a year and half less, against $73,327 across Cumberland County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Cumberland County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cumberland County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sigel is a very small town in Cumberland County, Illinois, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and a smaller share of residents live below the poverty line than is true for many places. A minority of adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold while summers turn quite warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing many. Across Cumberland County, some of the largest workplaces are Cumberland CUSD 77, Sheridan, a nursing home operator, and Brighton Cabinetry OSHA, a maker of custom wood cabinets. The typical commute is moderate, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Mattoon and Lake Sara are reservoirs a short drive away, and Lake Kanagga is another reservoir close by. For a longer outing, Hidden Springs State Forest and Fox Ridge State Park are protected areas a longer drive away.
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- 20%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Cumberland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cumberland County had 2,889 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Neoga 4NW weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cumberland County
- Cumberland CUSD 77School district105FTE
- SheridanNursing homes94
- Brighton Cabinetry OSHACabinets, kitchen, stock or custom wood, manufacturing83
- Neoga CUSD 3School district82FTE
- Beck's NeogaCorn farming, field and seed production25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 202 people in all across the county; Sigel 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
- LightningVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sigel’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Cumberland County and the Charleston-Mattoon, IL metro.
Sigel home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sigel$219,149
- 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 Sigel address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sigel — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.