West York, Illinois.
Typical home $160,978 (-3.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$19 (+2%) since Feb 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $6,512 -4%
- $167,490$160,978 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.
- West York$845
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in West York, IL fell 3.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in West York, Clark County, Illinois
West York, in Clark County, had 74 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Clark County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clark County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. West York is a small community in Clark County, Illinois, with very few people living in it, and its typical resident is quite young. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, peaking in July. Snow falls in some winters, and rain and melted snow arrive steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in the building trades, or in local shops. Unemployment in the county has come down recently, though the county's number of jobs has dipped slightly.
Things to do. Shakamak State Park is a protected area a longer drive away and is among the better-known places to visit nearby. Closer to home, the Stoner Site is an archaeological site a short drive away, and the Swope Art Museum, a museum a longer drive off, is another option.
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- 27 mintypical commute
What people in Clark County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clark County had 4,304 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 12 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Palestine weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clark County
- ZF Active Safety and Electronics USAir bag assemblies manufacturing496
- Marshall CUSD 2CSchool district213FTE
- Bolin EnterprisesPipeline, gas and oil, construction207
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters182
- Casey-Westfield CUSD 4CSchool district159FTE
- ID Castings of IllinoisCores, sand foundry, manufacturing83
- Martinsville CUSD 3CSchool district82FTE
- Casey Rehab and NursingSkilled nursing facilities75
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,403 people in all across the county; West York 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in West York’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 Clark County.
West York home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- West York$160,978
- 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 West York address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls West York — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.