Clifton, Illinois.
Typical home $240,220 (+8.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$683 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,232 +9%
- $220,988$240,220 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,134 +32%
- $182,086$240,220 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.
- Clifton$1,261
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Clifton, IL rose 8.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clifton, Iroquois County, Illinois
Clifton is a village of 1,352 people in Iroquois County. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Iroquois County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.8% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clifton is a village in Iroquois County, Illinois, with a population on the small side and a residents' median age somewhat younger than you might expect for a farm-country town. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades, and banks, insurance and property also employing many. Across Iroquois County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Prairieview Lutheran Homes and Central CUSD 4. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it had the year before.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor places all take a longer drive. Kankakee River State Park is a protected area along the river, and the Kankakee National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation Area is another protected area for those who like watching wildlife. J C Murphey Lake is a reservoir for time on the water.
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- 563households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Iroquois County had 7,015 jobs in 2025, 4.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 17 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Watseka Northwest weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Iroquois County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters222
- Prairieview Lutheran HomesSkilled nursing facilities213
- Central CUSD 4School district187FTE
- Iroquois West CUSD 10School district166FTE
- Nexus Onarga Family HealingMental health facilities, residential164
- T&D Metal ProductsCold rolling steel shapes made from purchased steel161
- Iroquois Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital151FTE
- LyonShowcases manufacturing142
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,886 people in all across the county; Clifton has none of its own. School districts come 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 wavesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Clifton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Iroquois County.
Clifton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clifton$240,220
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Clifton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clifton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.