Catlin, Illinois.
Typical home $171,977 (+11.9% in a year). Danville, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$523 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,336 +12%
- $153,641$171,977 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,472 +46%
- $117,505$171,977 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.
- Catlin$903
- 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 Catlin, IL rose 11.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Catlin, Vermilion County, Illinois
Catlin is a village of 1,983 people in Vermilion County. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Vermilion County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Catlin is a village in Vermilion County, Illinois, with a population on the smaller side and a median age somewhat older than the country as a whole. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and poverty is uncommon here. Winters are cold and summers warm, with rain and melted snow spread across the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops, and banks, insurance and property. Across Vermilion County, some of the largest workplaces are the Veterans Health Administration, Danville CCSD 118 and Frito Lay. Jobs across the county slipped last year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Rivers run in or beside town, including the Vermilion River and the Salt Fork Vermilion River, which suit anyone who likes being near water. A short drive away are Kickapoo State Recreation Area, a protected area for walking and time outdoors, and Lake Vermilion. The Fischer Theater, also a short drive off, is the nearest place for an evening out.
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- 921households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Vermilion County had 25,378 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Danville weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Vermilion County
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,094
- Danville CCSD 118School district890FTE
- Help At HomeHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical695
- Frito LAYBreakfast cereal manufacturing525
- Watchfire Signs (Danville, IL)Manufacturer of electronic signs401
- City of DanvilleExecutive offices, federal, state, and local396
- OSF Sacred Heart Medical CenterGeneral hospital370FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters307
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 79 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,183 people in all across the county; Catlin has one of its own. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Catlin’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Vermilion County and the Danville, IL metro.
Catlin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Catlin$171,977
- 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.
- Catlin16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Catlin8
Zip codes with a Catlin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Catlin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.