Sorento, Illinois.
Typical home $54,998 (+11.5% in a year). St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$63 (+28%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $5,691 +12%
- $49,307$54,998 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $10,755 -16%
- $65,753$54,998 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.
- Sorento$289
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Sorento, IL rose 11.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sorento, Bond County, Illinois
Sorento is a village of 429 people in Bond County. Half its households earn more than $47,679 a year and half less, against $65,959 across Bond County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Bond County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bond County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sorento is a small village in Bond County, Illinois, home to a small community. Nearly everyone lives in a home they own, and homes here cost much less than the typical American home. Household incomes run below the county's, and poverty is more common than most of the country. Few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in restaurants and hotels, manufacturing, and shops. Across Bond County, the largest workplaces include Bond County CUSD 2, Greenville University and the Bureau of Prisons. Commutes are long, and almost no one works from home. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, and the number of jobs there has held roughly steady.
Things to do. The closest outdoor spot is Coffeen Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area, a protected area a short drive away. Farther afield, Carlyle Lake is a large reservoir, and Vandalia State House State Historic Site is a museum a longer drive away. Winters are cold, with January the chilliest month, and summers turn hot in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
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- 177households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Bond County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bond County had 4,518 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 67°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hillsboro weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bond County
- Bond County CUSD 2School district356FTE
- Greenville UniversityUniversity or college239
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice156
- Donnewald Distributing CompanyBeverages, alcoholic, merchant wholesalers143
- MallinckrodtMedicinal chemicals, uncompounded, manufacturing89
- Greenville Regional HospitalGeneral hospital76FTE
- Enertech GlobalAir-conditioners, unit, manufacturing69
- Masa MillingBakery products, fresh, made in commercial bakeries65
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 828 people in all across the county; Sorento has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sorento’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 Bond County and the St. Louis, MO-IL metro.
Sorento home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sorento$54,998
- 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 Sorento address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sorento — 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.