BellevueIL
A town of 1,888, incorporated in 1941.
Is Bellevue a good place to live?
Bellevue’s best subject grade is an A for walkability; its weakest is a C− for schools. On walkability, just 116 of Illinois’ 1,284 towns do better. Only 33 of Illinois’ 1,240 towns score lower on civic life. Bellevue has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Bellevue stand out
Where Bellevue beats most towns.
Typical home value
99% of working residents leave Bellevue for work
Where Bellevue’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Bellevue grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Bellevue is from typical.
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Moving to Bellevue: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Bellevue, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Bellevue.
The typical home in Bellevue is valued at about $114K
The typical Bellevue home is worth about $114,000, up 12.3% in a year, 62% below the Illinois typical home. At $943 a month, Bellevue’s median rent is below both the Illinois town median ($1,129 a month) and the median of U.S. towns ($1,185 a month).
| Bellevue | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $943 a month | $1,129 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 75% | 75% | 73% |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
About one in three of Bellevue’s working residents commute to Peoria
Most working residents leave Bellevue for work: only 1% work in town. At $61,000, Bellevue’s median household income is against $83,000 in Illinois’ towns and $80,000 across U.S. towns. Since 2013, Bellevue has lost 79 jobs, to 550 in 2023.
| Bellevue | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 1.1% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Median household income | $61,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 12% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Low risk in Bellevue, with cold waves at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 74% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Four seasons and pleasant summers in Bellevue
Bellevue has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 86°, January nights drop to 17° and about 26 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
On CDC estimates, Bellevue is healthier than 64% of U.S. towns
Bellevue beats the Illinois average on 3 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 2. 18% of adults binge drink in Bellevue.
| Bellevue | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 18% | 16% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 22% | 23% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 34% | 37% | 35% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 23% | 25% |
| What stands out | Bellevue | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 7.3% | 9.9% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 10.7% | 13.2% |
| More adults with depression | 23.8% | 19.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Dickson Mounds and 8 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Bellevue. Close and well known come first.
33 mi MuseumDickson Mounds
5 mi Zoo & aquariumWildlife Prairie Park6 mi Zoo & aquariumPeoria Zoo38 mi Zoo & aquariumMiller Park Zoo
6 mi GardenGeorge L. Luthy Memorial Botanical Garden
18 mi MuseumAdlai E. Stevenson I HousePhoto credits
Dickson Mounds: MattHucke, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wildlife Prairie Park: Katherine Johnson, CC BY 2.0 · George L. Luthy Memorial Botanical Garden: Original uploader was ProfDEH at en.wikipedia, Public domain · Adlai E. Stevenson I House: Nyttend, Public domain
Everything we know about Bellevue
Colleges nearby
4 within 15 miles of the center of Bellevue
About 5 of every 100 Bellevue residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Illinois.
About Bellevue
Village in Illinois, United States
Bellevue is a village in Peoria County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,878 at the 2020 census. Bellevue is a suburb of Peoria and is part of the Peoria, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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- Area
- 2.1 sq mi
Questions about Bellevue
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Bellevue, IL expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B+.