8 findings fired for Illinois this run, against a typical home value of $297,573 in August 2026 and covered employment of 5,992,382 in 2026 Q1.
Typical home value
$297,573
as of 2026-08
32nd pct · 35th of 51 US states · median $350,752
Zillow Home Value Index, state file: the middle third of the market, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Home value, 1-yr
5.3%
as of 2026-08
96th pct · 3rd of 51 US states · median 2.1%
Zillow's own twelve-month change on the state row.
Jobs
5,992,382
as of 2026 Q1
90th pct · 6th of 52 US states · median 1,934,777
BLS QCEW covered employment, third month of the quarter, all ownerships.
Average weekly wage
$1,731
as of 2026 Q1
84th pct · 9th of 52 US states · median $1,416
Total quarterly wages divided by average employment and by thirteen weeks; one covered job, not a household.
Establishments
389,406
as of 2026 Q1
88th pct · 7th of 52 US states · median 161,279
BLS QCEW reporting units, all ownerships.
Jobs, over the year
0.0%
as of 2026 Q1
70th pct · 13th of 52 US states · median -0.2%
BLS's own published over-the-year change. The newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so this is their figure, not a subtraction of ours.
A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.
Typical home $297,573 (Aug 2026), +5.3% over one year, +29.1% over five
32nd pct · 35th of 51 US states · median $350,752
Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), typical value of homes in the 35th to 65th percentile, smoothed and seasonally adjusted; a model estimate of value, not a sale price. Data through Zillow Research.
Item
Value
Distance
Illinois
$297,573 · +5.3% 1-yr
Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), typical value of homes in the 35th to 65th percentile, smoothed and seasonally adjusted; a model estimate of value, not a sale price. Data through Zillow Research.
not applicableretrieved 2026-10-02Zillow's rent index is not read at state scale by this app: the state assembler is handed a null rent table, so typical rent and price-to-rent are structurally absent here rather than missing this month. Both are published per county and per metro area, and the county and metro pages print them.
Rather than print an empty row that suggests a number could arrive, the rows are omitted and the reason is stated. The rent figures for this state's counties are on their own pages.
5.99 m jobs at 389,406 employers (2026 Q1); 0.0% jobs and +4.1% average weekly wage over the year
90th pct · 6th of 52 US states · median 1,934,777
BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, all ownerships, total covered employment in the quarter's third month; over-the-year changes as published. Suppressed cells stay blank.
Item
Value
Distance
Illinois
5.99 m jobs · $1,731/wk · 0.0% YoY
NAICS sector mix, BLS QCEW 2026 Q1. A location quotient above 1 means the sector employs a larger share here than nationally. A withheld cell is absent, not zero.
Sector
Jobs
Average weekly wage
Location quotient
Health care and social assistance
875,404
$1,261
0.97
Manufacturing
566,223
$2,067
1.17
Retail trade
554,109
$847
0.95
Accommodation and food services
494,297
$598
0.92
Professional and technical services
434,086
$2,678
1.05
Administrative and waste services
372,923
$1,261
1.09
Transportation and warehousing
308,050
$1,429
1.22
Finance and insurance
301,799
$4,960
1.24
Wholesale trade
288,301
$2,386
1.26
Construction
229,599
$1,803
0.73
Other services
199,856
$1,179
1.12
Educational services
148,792
$1,299
1.15
Information
92,206
$3,270
0.83
Arts, entertainment and recreation
91,594
$1,010
0.93
Real estate and rental
77,214
$2,208
0.84
Management of companies
73,170
$4,220
0.73
Utilities
25,969
$3,741
1.10
Agriculture, forestry, fishing
18,228
$1,037
0.42
Mining, oil and gas
6,562
$1,961
0.31
Unclassified
63
$1,002
0.00
BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, all ownerships, total covered employment in the quarter's third month; over-the-year changes as published. Suppressed cells stay blank.
A 30-year mortgage on the typical home at 7.28% costs about $1,629 a month in principal and interest.
payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $297,573 × 80% = $238,059, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $1,629/mo principal and interest
wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,731 × 52 / 12 = $7,501) = 22% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
years of wages = $297,573 / ($1,731 × 52) = 3.3
Estimate. Principal and interest on the typical home with 20% down over 30 years at this week's Freddie Mac average rate; compared with the average weekly wage of all jobs covered by unemployment insurance in the area (BLS QCEW), which is pay per job, not household income.
2 ports within 200 km, 0 land crossings within 250 km
NGA World Port Index harbours (medium and large, or any with BTS statistics) and BTS Border Crossing Entry Data ports; BTS Port Performance volumes for the latest reporting year.
Item
Value
Distance
St. Louis
30.49 m tons 2020 · #21 US
182 km
Tri-City Port
large harbour, channel 3.4 m
173 km
These are the gateways near the state’s centroid, within the radii named above, not every port and crossing inside the state boundary. lib/economy searches a disc around a point; there is no clip-to-boundary path.
NGA World Port Index harbours (medium and large, or any with BTS statistics) and BTS Border Crossing Entry Data ports; BTS Port Performance volumes for the latest reporting year.
Ranked by BLS QCEW third-month covered employment from the same nationwide table the screener uses. A county whose cell BLS withheld is absent from the ranking, not last in it.
From the bundled place manifest, which derives its metro table offline from the committed BLS OEWS metro index. A metro that spans a state line appears on both states' pages.
not applicableretrieved 2026-10-02There is no state water report here. lib/water searches discs of 75 km for gauges and wells and 150 km for reservoirs around a single point; a disc around a state's centroid is not a state, and presenting one as a state figure would be a false claim. The county pages carry the water sections, each labelled with its own radius.
Drought, reservoirs, stream gauges and groundwater wells are reported around a point, with every row's distance printed. That is a county page's section, not a state's.
None of these series is keyed to this state. They are national, gauge, single-state or port series, shown as context for the numbers above.
The national indicator set, filtered by lens only.
Indicator
Latest
Unit
Status
Mississippi River at Memphis, stage
not published
ft
no data
Mississippi River at St. Louis, stage
not published
ft
no data
Ohio River at Louisville, stage
16.50
ft
ok
Missouri River at St. Joseph, stage
not published
ft
no data
Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases)
5,170.00
ft³/s
ok
Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full
71.30
%
ok
Laredo truck crossings, monthly
258,700.00
trucks
ok
Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual
10,513,167.00
TEU
watch
Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports
6.00
ships
ok
Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate
6,830.00
$ per 40 ft box
watch
US diesel retail price
not published
$ per gallon
no data
WTI crude oil, spot
96.16
$ per barrel
watch
30-year fixed mortgage rate
7.28
%
watch
Housing starts, annual rate
1,275.00
thousands of units
ok
Building permits, annual rate
1,403.00
thousands of units
ok
Case-Shiller US home price index
337.31
index, Jan 2000 = 100
ok
Unemployment rate
4.10
%
ok
US goods and services trade balance, monthly
-88,576.00
$ millions
ok
Retail sales excluding food services, monthly
646,347.00
$ millions
ok
lib/indicators has no geographic selection: every registry entry is a United States, gauge, Texas, port, crossing or world series. Reading these as this state's own readings would be wrong.