Cabery, Illinois.
Typical home $158,970 (+3.7% in a year). Pontiac, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$390 (+88%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,724 +4%
- $153,246$158,970 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,559 +22%
- $130,411$158,970 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.
- Cabery$834
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Cabery, IL rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cabery, Livingston County, Illinois
Cabery is a village of 231 people in Livingston County. Unemployment in Livingston County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Livingston 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cabery is a very small village in Livingston County, in the flat farm country of central Illinois. Homes here cost less than in many parts of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while summers turn warm, with July the warmest month and steady precipitation through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Across Livingston County, some of the largest workplaces are Vactor Manufacturing, which assembles heavy trucks, OSF Healthcare SJJWAMC, a general hospital, and Walmart. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Outdoor places are the main draw nearby, though each is a longer drive away. Kankakee River State Park is a protected area along the Kankakee River, a good place for walking and time by the water. Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie is a large protected area of restored prairie, and Heidecke Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area is a protected area built around a lake.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 7%work from home
What people in Livingston County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Livingston County had 13,918 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 23 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dwight weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Livingston County
- Pontiac FacilityDiesel and semidiesel engines manufacturing918
- Vactor ManufacturingHeavy trucks assembling on purchased chassis765
- Pontiac Correctional CenterCorrectional institutions458
- OSF Healthcare SJJWAMCHospitals, general medical and surgical383
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters332
- DWT - Aldi329
- WilliamIntellectual and developmental disability facilities, residential279
- Livingston CountyGovernment base facilities operation support services278
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 45 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,548 people in all across the county; Cabery has none of its own. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of CaberyRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cabery’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 Livingston County and the Pontiac, IL metro.
Cabery home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cabery$158,970
- 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 Cabery address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cabery — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.