Sparland, Illinois.
Typical home $97,168 (+15.5% in a year). Peoria, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$180 (+55%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $13,011 +15%
- $84,157$97,168 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.
- Sparland$510
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Sparland, IL rose 15.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sparland, Marshall County, Illinois
Sparland is a village of 366 people in Marshall County. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Marshall County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Marshall County work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sparland is a very small village in Marshall County, Illinois, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Typical home values here are modest, and household incomes across Marshall County sit a little above what many small Illinois communities see. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold and snowy while summers turn warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops, with some in farming. Across Marshall County, the biggest workplaces include Ajinomoto Foods North America, Maker's Pride Wenona and the Henry-Senachwine school district. Jobs across the county grew over the past year, and unemployment there is lower than it was a year ago. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. Marshall State Fish and Wildlife Area, a protected area, lies in or beside town and suits walking and time outdoors. A short drive away are Woodford State Fish and Wildlife Area, another protected area, and the Marshall Site, an archaeological site. For a longer outing, Peoria Zoo is a longer drive away.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Marshall County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marshall County had 2,864 jobs in 2025, 3.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 25 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lacon weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marshall County
- Ajinomoto Foods North AmericaFrozen specialty food manufacturing369
- Maker's Pride WenonaBakery products, dry, manufacturing315
- Henry-Senachwine CUSD 5School district119FTE
- Lacon RehabSkilled nursing facilities111
- Mexichem Specialty ResinsPolyvinyl chloride resins manufacturing100
- B & B TruckingTanker trucking, long-distance82
- Hardin IndustriesFabricated structural metal manufacturing61
- Goldwater Care TolucaSkilled nursing facilities56
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,260 people in all across the county; Sparland 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
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sparland’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 Marshall County and the Peoria, IL metro.
Sparland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sparland$97,168
- 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 Sparland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sparland — 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.