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The Heyworth handbook

Living in Heyworth, IL: what to set up and who to call

Wednesday is trash day in Heyworth; GFL Disposal collects. Fiber reaches 98% of addresses in Heyworth.

I’m new in town

What to set up in Heyworth, and who provides it. Tap an answer for the details and where they come from.

Home services

Power, water and internet

Who to call to start service at a new address in Heyworth.

Electricity

Power comes from Ameren Illinois Company

Ameren Illinois Company (Ameren Illinois Company), an investor-owned utility, serves all of Heyworth. Its homes paid an average of 16.7¢ per kWh in 2025, about $148 a month (its average across Illinois, for customers on its standard service). Illinois lets you buy power from another supplier; 45% of Ameren Illinois Company’s home customers do, and Ameren Illinois Company still delivers it.

Service territory: HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (map dated Aug 2023). Prices and customers: EIA-861, 2025.

Drinking water · reported to EPA

Water comes from Heyworth water system

The Heyworth water system supplies Heyworth: about 94% of residents live in its service area. About 6% of homes are outside any mapped community water system, most likely on private wells, which EPA doesn’t regulate. It draws ground water and serves 2,853 people in all.

No health-based violations reported to EPA in the five years to October 2026, like 78% of the 7,966 systems serving 1,001–3,300 people.

Lead, 90th percentile1.5 ppb
015 ppb action level20

The latest lead result on file, the 90th percentile of homes sampled in Jan 2023–Dec 2025, was 1.5 ppb, below the 15 ppb action level that applied. That’s higher than 61% of similar systems’ latest results.

The system’s full record: EPA ECHO report

EPA SDWIS via Envirofacts (violations pulled Oct 9, 2026) and ECHO (lead samples, 2026Q3); service area: EPA Community Water System Service Area Boundaries v3.0 (EPA’s estimate). Violations are counted by the start of their compliance period. IL1130650.

Internet

9 home internet providers serve Heyworth

99% of 1,111 addresses can get 100/20 Mbps; 98% can get fiber.

ProviderTechnologyAddressesFastest (Mbps)
Pavlov MediaFiber98%8,000/8,000
Mediacom XtreamCable, Fiber98%1,000/50
FrontierFiber, DSL90%7,000/7,000
VerizonFixed wireless93%300/20
NextlinkFixed wireless85%1,000/500
AT&TFixed wireless79%100/20

FCC National Broadband Map, as of December 2025. Availability as providers report it, not speeds people get.

Trash & recycling

Trash day in Heyworth is Wednesday

Pickup days, the drop-off and recycling in Heyworth, from the town’s own site.

How trash works hereTown’s haulerGFL Disposal picks up at the curb for every homeheyworth-il.gov
Trash dayWednesdayEvery week
Pickup calendar

This month

Holiday weeks

When a holiday falls on a weekday, pickup slides one day later for the rest of that week.

What goes in the recycling bin

Accepted at the curb

  • Plastics #1 through #7 (except #6 - Styrofoam)
  • Cardboard broken down and no larger than 2 ft. x 2 ft., bundled or contained
  • Newspapers, catalogs, phone books, magazines and junk mail
  • Steel, aluminum and bi-metal cans
Furniture, appliances and bulky itemsBulk items such as couches and stuffed chairs are collected as refuse with garbage; white goods are set at the curb on garbage collection days
What can be recycledThe town’s recycling pageheyworth-il.gov →

From heyworth-il.gov, cms8.revize.com, the town’s official site, checked Oct 21, 2026; pages dated 2026. Rules change: the town’s page is the last word. .

Schools

Where your child goes to school

Public school districts and the school path by grade.

Heyworth kids go to
PK–6Heyworth Elem SchoolHeyworth Community Unit School District 4
7–12Heyworth Jr-Sr High SchoolHeyworth Community Unit School District 4

Heyworth is in Heyworth Community Unit School District 4.

A−School gradeSee Schools →

U.S. Department of Education, NCES Common Core of Data, 2024–25. Enrollment rules and registration are the district’s.

Government & voting

Town hall and registering to vote

Who to call, and how to register.

Election office: FVAP local election office directory, updated Jun 2025; jurisdictions: EAC EAVS 2024. Registration rules and links: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.

ZIP codes & area codes

Heyworth is in ZIP code 61745

ZIP codes where Heyworth residents live, with the share of the town in each.

ZIPPost office nameShare of HeyworthZIP’s residents in Heyworth
61745Heyworth, IL100%64%

Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, by census block; post office names: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). ZIPs created since 2020 are missing.

Everyday places

Getting around, the ER and the library

One line each; the subject pages have the rest.

ER: CMS hospital data. Library: IMLS Public Libraries Survey, FY2024.

Questions about living in Heyworth

Who supplies Heyworth’s drinking water, and has it had violations?

The Heyworth water system (EPA ID IL1130650). It reported no health-based violations to EPA in the five years to October 2026; 78% of systems its size had none. Its latest lead 90th percentile was 1.5 ppb (Jan 2023–Dec 2025), against a 15 ppb action level.

Who provides electricity in Heyworth?

Ameren Illinois Company (Ameren Illinois Company), an investor-owned utility. Its homes paid about 16.7¢ per kWh in 2025 (EIA).

What internet providers serve Heyworth?

Pavlov Media, Mediacom Xtream, Frontier, Verizon, Nextlink, AT&T (FCC, as of December 2025).

What ZIP codes are in Heyworth?

61745. Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas.

What school district is Heyworth in?

Heyworth Community Unit School District 4.

How do I register to vote in Heyworth?

In Illinois you can register online until 16 days before Election Day, in person up to and including Election Day, or by mail (postmarked 28 days before). Elections here are run by the McLean County Clerk. Check your registration at ova.elections.il.gov.

Sources & dates

Every answer above names its source. Here they are with their dates.

  • Water: EPA SDWIS (Envirofacts, pulled Oct 9, 2026), ECHO SDWA 2026Q3, EPA CWS Service Area Boundaries v3.0.
  • Power: HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (map Aug 2023); EIA-861 final 2025.
  • Trash: Heyworth’s own website (heyworth-il.gov, cms8.revize.com), read Oct 21, 2026, pickup and drop-off facts extracted and checked against the page they came from.
  • ZIP codes: Census 2020 ZCTA relationship files; GeoNames postal codes (CC BY 4.0).
  • Schools: NCES Common Core of Data, 2024–25.
  • Registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025 (read Oct 10, 2026). Official sites and area codes: Wikidata.
  • Election office: FVAP local election office directory (fetched Oct 10, 2026; each record dated), EAC EAVS 2024 jurisdictions; registration and lookup links from vote.gov’s state data, checked Oct 10, 2026.
  • Internet: FCC National Broadband Map, as of December 2025.