Stonington, Illinois.
Typical home $127,752 (+2.3% in a year). Taylorville, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$330 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,905 +2%
- $124,847$127,752 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,599 +28%
- $100,153$127,752 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.
- Stonington$671
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Stonington, IL rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stonington, Christian County, Illinois
Stonington is a village of 837 people in Christian County. Half its households earn more than $65,972 a year and half less, against $62,611 across Christian County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Christian County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stonington is a small Illinois village in Christian County, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners, a good deal more than is typical across the country. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January and a fair amount of snow, and summers turn properly warm by July. Rain and melted snow are steady through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities also employing many. Commutes are moderate, and few people work from home. Across Christian County, some of the largest workplaces are GSI, which makes farm machinery, Taylorville Memorial Hospital, and Taylorville CUSD 3. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The Lincoln Home National Historic Site and the Old State Capitol State Historic Site are museums, a longer drive away. For time outdoors, Lake Springfield is a reservoir, also a longer drive away. The Henson Robinson Zoo is another longer drive for a day out.
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- 297households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Christian County had 9,275 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 66°. About 14 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Decatur Wtp weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Christian County
- GSI : AssumptionFarm machinery and equipment manufacturing397
- Illinois Department of Corrections - Taylorville Correctional CenterCorrectional institutions307
- Taylorville CUSD 3School district305FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters282
- Taylorville Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital257FTE
- The GSI GroupFarm machinery and equipment manufacturing250
- Pana CUSD 8School district218FTE
- Lincoln Healthcare GroupNursing care facilities151
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 32 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,433 people in all across the county; Stonington 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Stonington’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 Christian County and the Taylorville, IL metro.
Stonington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stonington$127,752
- 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 Stonington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stonington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.