Stewardson, Illinois.
Typical home $160,438 (+3.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$111 (+15%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $5,626 +4%
- $154,812$160,438 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.
- Stewardson$842
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Stewardson, IL rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stewardson, Shelby County, Illinois
Stewardson is a village of 721 people in Shelby County. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Shelby County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stewardson is a small village in Shelby County, Illinois, where most homes are lived in by their owners and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect in a place this size. Typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Shelby County, some of the largest workplaces are Graphic Packaging International, Walmart and the Shelbyville school district. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. Hidden Springs State Forest is a protected woodland a short drive away, and Lake Sara, a reservoir, is also close by. Lake Shelbyville, a larger reservoir, and Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site are both a longer drive away.
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- 330households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shelby County had 4,919 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more 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 Shelby County
- Graphic Packaging InternationalPaper and paperboard866
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters199
- Shelbyville CUSD 4School district192FTE
- Shelby CountyGeneral services departments, government125
- P&H MFGSemi-trailer manufacturing110
- Manor Court of ShelbyvilleSkilled nursing facilities104
- Hshs Good Shepherd HospitalCritical access hospital69FTE
- Cowden-Herrick CUSD 3ASchool district67FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,693 people in all across the county; Stewardson has none 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
- 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 Stewardson’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 Shelby County.
Stewardson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stewardson$160,438
- 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 Stewardson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stewardson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Stewardson
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 62463 | Stewardson | 1,103 | — | $167,416 |
| 62465 | Strasburg | 806 | — | $185,440 |