Weldon, Illinois.
Typical home $125,445 (+10.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$109 (+20%) since Oct 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $12,342 +11%
- $113,103$125,445 since Sep 2025
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.
- Weldon$658
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Weldon, IL rose 10.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Weldon, De Witt County, Illinois
Weldon is a village of 369 people in De Witt County. Half its households earn more than $60,625 a year and half less, against $71,678 across De Witt County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Weldon is a very small village in De Witt County, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, far more than in most places. Incomes run below the county's, and relatively few adults have a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest; rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and government also employing many. The commute is fairly long, and very few people work from home. Across De Witt County, larger workplaces include Constellation, which generates nuclear power, the Clinton school district and Warner Hospital and Health Services.
Things to do. Weldon Springs State Park and Clinton Lake State Recreation Area are both protected areas a short drive away, and Clinton Lake itself, a reservoir, is just as close. Robert Allerton Park, a botanical garden, is also a short drive away. That makes for easy days outdoors, from walking and picnicking to time by the water.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents 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 33° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Champaign Southwest weather station, 20 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; Weldon has none 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 Weldon’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.
Weldon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Weldon$125,445
- 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 Weldon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Weldon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.