Westfield, Illinois.
Typical home $105,116 (-1.4% in a year). Charleston-Mattoon, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$118 (+27%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Down $1,469 -1%
- $106,585$105,116 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $18,453 -15%
- $123,569$105,116 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.
- Westfield$552
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Westfield, IL fell 1.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Westfield, Clark County, Illinois
Westfield is a village of 536 people in Clark County. Half its households earn more than $63,819 a year and half less, against $72,927 across Clark County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% are rented. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Westfield is a small village in Clark County, Illinois, where almost everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes sit below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, with snow most years, and summers turn warm, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and shops also employing many. Across Clark County, some of the largest workplaces are ZF, which assembles air bags, the Marshall school district, and Bolin Enterprises, a pipeline and gas construction firm. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Fox Ridge State Park, a protected area, and Lake Charleston, a reservoir, are both a short drive away, and O'Brien Stadium is nearby too. For a longer outing, Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
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 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 19 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Charleston weather station, 9 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; Westfield 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
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Westfield’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 and the Charleston-Mattoon, IL metro.
Westfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Westfield$105,116
- 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 Westfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Westfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.