Tolono, Illinois.
Typical home $254,883 (+5.9% in a year). Champaign-Urbana, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$713 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,281 +6%
- $240,602$254,883 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,113 +35%
- $188,770$254,883 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.
- Tolono$1,338
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Tolono, IL rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tolono, Champaign County, Illinois
Tolono is a village of 3,604 people in Champaign County. Unemployment in Champaign County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tolono is a village in Champaign County, Illinois, in the flat farm country south of Champaign and Urbana. The people who live here are younger than in much of the country, and the poverty rate is low. Homes here sell for more than the typical home across the county's smaller towns, and winters are cold, with highs near freezing in January, while summers turn warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, or in manufacturing. Across Champaign County, some of the largest workplaces are the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Carle Foundation Hospital. Commutes are fairly short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Krannert Art Museum and the Spurlock Museum offer art and history close to the university. The University of Illinois Arboretum is a botanical garden, also a short drive off, and Robert Allerton Park, a botanical garden, is a longer drive away.
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- 1,379households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Champaign County had 95,049 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Champaign Willard Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Champaign County
- University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUniversity or college12,905
- Carle Foundation HospitalGeneral hospital3,498FTE
- Champaign CUSD 4School district1,953FTE
- University of Illinois System OfficesUniversity or college1,057
- FedExCourier and express delivery services1,031
- Urbana SD 116School district805FTE
- Parkland CollegeTwo-year college724
- Mahomet-Seymour CUSD 3School district533FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 205 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 64,246 people in all across the county; Tolono has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Droughtrelatively high in parts of TolonoRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Tolono’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 Champaign County and the Champaign-Urbana, IL metro.
Tolono home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tolono$254,883
- 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.
- Tolono9
Zip codes with a Tolono address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tolono — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.