Smithshire, Illinois.
Typical home $151,512 (+2.7% in a year). Burlington, IA-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$309 (+64%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $3,992 +3%
- $147,520$151,512 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.
- Smithshire$795
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Smithshire, IL rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Smithshire, Warren County, Illinois
The Census does not count Smithshire on its own, so the figures here are Warren County's. Half the county's households earn more than $67,385 a year and half less; 15% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 75% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Warren County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Warren County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Smithshire is a small town in Warren County, Illinois, in the middle of the country. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and home values sit at a moderate level for the region. The winters are cold and the summers are warm, with a good deal of rain and melted snow over the year.
Work. Schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehousing and utilities employ most residents. Across the county, unemployment has eased over the past year, although the number of jobs dipped slightly over the most recent full year. A minority of adults hold a four-year degree, and most people travel a fairly short way to work, with relatively few working from home.
Things to do. Crapo Park is a botanical garden, and Carl Sandburg State Historic Site is a museum, both a longer drive away. Deep Run is a river that is also a longer drive from town, offering a quieter place to spend an afternoon.
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- 6,787households
- 38.5median age
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Warren County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Warren County had 6,346 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Monmouth 4NW weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Warren County
- Smithfield Monmouth Fresh MeatsPork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants1,547
- Monmouth-Roseville CUSD 238School district261FTE
- Monmouth CollegeUniversity or college227
- Midwestern Pet Foods, Inc. - MonmouthAnimal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, manufacturing163
- United CUSD 304School district121FTE
- Fusion Tech IntegratedPlate work, fabricated metal, manufacturing105
- OSF Holy Family MED CTRCritical access hospital105FTE
- Industrial Trade ServicesManpower pools84
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,799 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Warren County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Warren County and the Burlington, IA-IL metro.
Smithshire home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Smithshire$151,512
- 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 Smithshire address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Smithshire — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.