Toulon, Illinois.
Typical home $139,825 (+9.0% in a year). Peoria, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$341 (+87%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,564 +9%
- $128,261$139,825 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $12,575 +10%
- $127,250$139,825 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.
- Toulon$734
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 37 years.
Typical home values in Toulon, IL rose 9.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Toulon, Stark County, Illinois
Toulon is a city of 1,193 people in Stark County. Half its households earn more than $59,167 a year and half less, against $62,878 across Stark County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Stark County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Toulon is a small city and the seat of Stark County, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the population is a little older than in many American towns. Household incomes in town run below the county's, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while July brings warm summer days; rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, in manufacturing, and in the building trades. Across Stark County, the largest workplaces include the Stark County school district, FMC, a pesticides manufacturer, and Aldrich Company, which makes boilers and power equipment. Most people spend a good while commuting, and very few work from home. Across the county, the job count slipped last year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. The Spoon River, a short drive away, is the nearest spot for time by the water. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Ryan Round Barn, a museum, and to Snakeden Hollow State Fish and Wildlife Area, a protected area. The Galva Opera House, a theatre, is also a longer drive away.
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- 578households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stark County had 1,673 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 31 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kewanee East weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Stark County
- Macon GCInstitutional building construction general contractors162
- Stark County CUSD 100School district122FTE
- FMCPesticides manufacturing56
- River Valley Cooperative- ValleyFarm supply stores32
- Aldrich CompanyBoilers, power, manufacturing24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 274 people in all across the county; Toulon has none of its own. School districts come 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Toulon’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 Stark County and the Peoria, IL metro.
Toulon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Toulon$139,825
- 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.
- Toulon7
Zip codes with a Toulon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Toulon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.