Tuscola, Illinois.
Typical home $179,507 (+2.8% in a year), asking rent $850 .
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$523 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,825 +3%
- $174,682$179,507 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,962 +40%
- $128,545$179,507 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.
- Tuscola$942
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Tuscola, IL rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tuscola, Douglas County, Illinois
Tuscola is a city of 4,636 people in Douglas County. Half its households earn more than $78,179 a year and half less, against $77,320 across Douglas County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Douglas County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tuscola is a small city in Douglas County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population is somewhat younger than in many small Illinois towns. Household incomes sit a little above the county's, and homes are modestly priced. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers are warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Tuscola are Tuscola CUSD, Syngenta Seeds and Archer Daniels Midland Company. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Robert Allerton Park is a botanical garden and Fox Ridge State Park is a protected natural area, both a longer drive away. Krannert Art Museum is another place worth the longer drive when you want an afternoon indoors.
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- 2,033households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Douglas County had 7,574 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer 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 65°. About 17 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tuscola weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tuscola
- Tuscola CUSD 301School district148FTE
- City of TuscolaCity and town managers' offices58
- Syngenta SeedsSeed processing, post-harvest for propagation36
- Archer Daniels Midland Company27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 121 people in all. 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
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Tuscola’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Douglas County.
Tuscola home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tuscola$179,507
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Tuscola listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Tuscola22.66%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Tuscola21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Tuscola9
Zip codes with a Tuscola address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tuscola — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.