Steeleville, Illinois.
Typical home $167,118 (+9.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$466 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,297 +9%
- $152,822$167,118 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,215 +32%
- $126,904$167,118 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.
- Steeleville$877
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Steeleville, IL rose 9.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Steeleville, Randolph County, Illinois
Steeleville is a village of 1,930 people in Randolph County. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Randolph County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Steeleville is a small village in Randolph County, Illinois, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Homes here are priced modestly, and the share of adults with a four-year degree is low. Winters are cold, with highs only a little above freezing in January and some snow, while summers turn hot by July and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. People who live in Steeleville work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in other services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Randolph County, larger workplaces include Chester Mental Health Center, Spartan Light Metal Products in Sparta, and Red Bud Regional Hospital. The county has lost some jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is lower than it was a year earlier. Commutes are fairly short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Piney Creek Ravine State Natural Area and Fults Hill Prairie State Natural Area are protected places for walking and looking at the landscape, and the Charter Oak Schoolhouse is a small museum. Little Marys River is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Fort de Chartres and Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site are a longer drive away and give a look at the region's early history.
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- 849households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 20 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Randolph County had 11,252 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 11 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sparta West weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Randolph County
- Chester Mental Health CenterHospitals, psychiatric convalescent495
- Spartan Light Metal Products Inc. - SpartaAluminum die-castings, unfinished, manufacturing336
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters249
- Red BUD IndustriesCoil winding and cutting machinery, metalworking, manufacturing238
- Red Bud Regional HospitalHospitals, general medical and surgical200
- Sparta CUSD 140School district190FTE
- Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital189FTE
- Sparta Community HospitalCritical access hospital182FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,508 people in all across the county; Steeleville has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Steeleville’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 Randolph County.
Steeleville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Steeleville$167,118
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Steeleville9
Zip codes with a Steeleville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Steeleville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.