Tampico, Illinois.
Typical home $128,137 (-5.0% in a year). Sterling, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$260 (+63%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,808 -5%
- $134,945$128,137 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $7,792 +6%
- $120,345$128,137 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.
- Tampico$673
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 55 years.
Typical home values in Tampico, IL fell 5.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tampico, Whiteside County, Illinois
Tampico is a village of 689 people in Whiteside County. Half its households earn more than $56,250 a year and half less, against $67,500 across Whiteside County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Whiteside County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 4.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tampico is a small village where almost everyone owns the home they live in, a much higher share of owners than most places. Incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and farming also employing many. Across Whiteside County, some of the largest workplaces are CGH Medical Center, Wahl Clipper and Sterling CUSD 5. Few people work from home, and a typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Prophetstown State Recreation Area, a protected area, is a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park, another protected area, and to the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home, which is also a protected area.
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- 240households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Whiteside County had 20,285 jobs in 2025, 4.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 36 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Walnut weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Whiteside County
- HALO Branded SolutionsGeneral merchandise, durable goods, merchant wholesalers2,463
- CGH Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,213FTE
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage1,020
- Wahl ClipperHair clippers for human use, electric, manufacturing787
- Sterling CUSD 5School district540FTE
- Diamond Drives449
- CGH Medical CenterFamily physicians' offices380
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters340
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 75 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,621 people in all across the county; Tampico has none 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Tampico’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Whiteside County and the Sterling, IL metro.
Tampico home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tampico$128,137
- 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 Tampico address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tampico — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.