Chana, Illinois.
Typical home $266,487 (+6.3% in a year). Rochelle, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$758 (+118%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $15,754 +6%
- $250,733$266,487 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,857 +33%
- $200,629$266,487 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.
- Chana$1,399
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Chana, IL rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chana, Ogle County, Illinois
The Census does not count Chana on its own, so the figures here are Ogle County's. Half the county's households earn more than $82,132 a year and half less; 8% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 75% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Ogle County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 3.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ogle County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chana is a town in Ogle County in northern Illinois, where the land is open and the pace of life is steady. Most of the people who live here own their homes, and many have lived in the area for a long time. Among residents, middle age is more common than youth, and most households earn enough to stay well clear of the poverty line.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, retail shops, and transport and warehousing. Unemployment has eased over the past year, although the county had fewer jobs in its most recent full year than the year before. Fewer adults hold a college degree than in much of the country, and few people work from home, so most commute to a workplace, usually by car.
Things to do. Lowden State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and it is a good place for walks and quiet time outdoors. The Kishwaukee River, a longer drive away, suits anyone who enjoys being by water. Chana School, a museum a short drive away, offers a look at the town's history.
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- 20,821households
- 42.2median age
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Ogle County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ogle County had 14,427 jobs in 2025, 3.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rochelle weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ogle County
- Rochelle FoodsBacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses815
- ConstellationElectric power generation, nuclear715
- E D Etnyre & CoConstruction machinery manufacturing450
- Wheatland Tube Western TubeTube made from purchased iron or steel383
- Rochelle Community HospitalCritical access hospital347FTE
- Meridian CUSD 223School district286FTE
- Byron CUSD 226School district268FTE
- Del MonteLabeling services262
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,025 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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 moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Ogle County, 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 Ogle County and the Rochelle, IL metro.
Chana home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chana$266,487
- 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 Chana address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chana — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.