Tamaroa, Illinois.
Typical home $128,390 (+5.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$255 (+61%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $6,539 +5%
- $121,850$128,390 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,247 +7%
- $120,142$128,390 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.
- Tamaroa$674
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 52 years.
Typical home values in Tamaroa, IL rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tamaroa, Perry County, Illinois
Tamaroa is a village of 544 people in Perry County. Half its households earn more than $48,646 a year and half less, against $62,118 across Perry County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Perry County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 4.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Perry County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tamaroa is a small village in Perry County, Illinois, where most homes are lived in by their owners, a good deal more than is typical across the country. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, with highs near freezing in January, summers turn hot in July, and the year brings a fair amount of rain along with a modest amount of snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and government close behind. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and almost nobody works from home, so most people travel to a job, with a commute of moderate length. Across Perry County, the largest workplaces include the Illinois Department of Corrections, Prysmian Cables and Systems USA and Marshall Browning Hospital. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, though there were fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. The Perry County Jail museum is a short drive away. Farther afield, the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds Racetrack is a race track a longer drive away, and Rend Lake is a reservoir, also a longer drive away, with the Rend Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area, a protected area, nearby. The Big Muddy River is another longer drive for anyone who likes to be near water.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Perry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Perry County had 4,433 jobs in 2025, 4.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 68°. About 12 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Du Quoin Southeast weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Perry County
- Illinois Department of CorrectionsCorrectional institutions475
- Prysmian Cables and Systems USACable, nonferrous, insulated, or armored, made from purchased nonferrous wire284
- Marshall Browning HospitalCritical access hospital211FTE
- Pinckneyville Community HospitalCritical access hospital199FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters192
- Du Quoin CUSD 300School district124FTE
- EatonFabricated structural metal mfg120
- Pinckneyville CHSD 101School district68FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,914 people in all across the county; Tamaroa has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- EarthquakesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Tamaroa’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Perry County.
Tamaroa home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tamaroa$128,390
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Tamaroa address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tamaroa — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.