Capron, Illinois.
Typical home $268,950 (+6.8% in a year). Rockford, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$856 (+154%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,145 +7%
- $251,806$268,950 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $87,630 +48%
- $181,321$268,950 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.
- Capron$1,412
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Capron, IL rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Capron, Boone County, Illinois
Capron is a village of 1,395 people in Boone County. Half its households earn more than $90,192 a year and half less, against $84,571 across Boone County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Boone County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Boone County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Capron is a village in Boone County, Illinois, home to a small community of residents at the last count. Most homes are lived in by their owners, incomes run above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than in many places. Winters are cold, with snow most years, and summers turn warm.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Boone County, some of the largest workplaces are Belvidere CUSD, General Mills - Belvidere and Walmart. Jobs across the county dipped last year, and unemployment there has eased compared with a year earlier. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many towns, and the typical commute is a fairly long one, with only a few people working from home.
Things to do. Mokeler Creek runs in or beside town, and Rush Creek is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Rock Cut State Park is a protected area, the Illinois Railway Museum is a museum, and Anderson Japanese Gardens is a botanical garden, each a longer drive away.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Boone County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Boone County had 11,310 jobs in 2025, 1.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 31 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marengo weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Boone County
- Belvidere CUSD 100School district868FTE
- General Mills - BelvidereGranola bars and clusters, nonchocolate, manufacturing690
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters350
- CCA MidwestPrefabricated wood frame component installation349
- R&D ThielBuildings, prefabricated, wood, manufacturing238
- DFA ICE Cream - BelvidereIce cream frozen dessert manufacturing205
- North Boone CUSD 200School district198FTE
- First Student183
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 42 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,217 people in all across the county; Capron 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
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Capron’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 Boone County and the Rockford, IL metro.
Capron home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Capron$268,950
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Capron6
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Capron address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Capron — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.