Wapella, Illinois.
Typical home $195,423 (+15.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$588 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $25,897 +15%
- $169,526$195,423 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,930 +51%
- $129,493$195,423 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.
- Wapella$1,026
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Wapella, IL rose 15.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wapella, De Witt County, Illinois
Wapella is a village of 513 people in De Witt County. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in De Witt County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in De Witt County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wapella is a small village in De Witt County, Illinois, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Few residents live below the poverty line, and homes cost less than in much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and frost and snow common, while summers turn warm in July, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, in banks, insurance and property, and in shops. Across De Witt County, the largest workplaces include Constellation, which generates nuclear power, the Clinton school district, and Warner Hospital and Health Services. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in much of the country, and a modest share work from home, while the typical commute is a short one.
Things to do. Weldon Springs State Park, a protected area, and Clinton Lake, a reservoir, are both a short drive away and suit walking, fishing and time outdoors. Farther afield, Miller Park Zoo is a longer drive away, and so is Robert Allerton Park, a botanical garden. These make good day trips from the village.
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- 224households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in De Witt County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. De Witt County had 5,070 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bloomington 5W weather station, 19 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in De Witt County
- ConstellationElectric power generation, nuclear586
- Clinton CUSD 15School district351FTE
- Altorfer Inc. - Clinton, IL - 9670 Tabor RoadCommercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance services129
- Goldwater Care ClintonSkilled nursing facilities125
- Haven of Farmer CitySkilled nursing facilities98
- Warner Hospital and Health ServicesCritical access hospital93FTE
- Blue Ridge CUSD 18School district85FTE
- Bayer Illinois Production CoSupport activities for crop production62
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,769 people in all across the county; Wapella has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wapella’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 De Witt County.
Wapella home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wapella$195,423
- 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 Wapella address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wapella — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.