Clinton, Illinois.
Typical home $156,909 (+8.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$447 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,675 +9%
- $144,234$156,909 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,831 +43%
- $110,078$156,909 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.
- Clinton$824
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Clinton, IL rose 8.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clinton, De Witt County, Illinois
Clinton is a city of 7,004 people in De Witt County. Half its households earn more than $62,323 a year and half less, against $71,678 across De Witt County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in De Witt County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clinton is a small city and the seat of De Witt County, with a median age somewhat older than the typical American town. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values and household incomes both sit below the county's. 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, banking and insurance, and transport and warehousing also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Clinton are Clinton CUSD 15, Warner Hospital and Health Services, and McElroy Metal. Few adults hold a four-year degree, commutes are short, and unemployment in De Witt County has eased a little over the past year.
Things to do. Weldon Springs State Park, a protected area, is in or beside town, and Clinton Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Robert Allerton Park is a botanical garden, and Scovill Zoo and the Monticello Railway Museum are also a longer drive away.
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- 3,157households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. De Witt County had 5,070 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 19 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lincoln weather station, 20 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clinton
- Clinton CUSD 15School district351FTE
- Warner Hospital and Health ServicesCritical access hospital93FTE
- McElroy MetalBuildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing61
- Kirby Foods ClintonGrocery stores56
- City of ClintonCity and town managers' offices42
- Jackson SupermarketsFood stores32
- ClintonMail and parcel delivery20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 347 people in all. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Clinton’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 De Witt County.
Clinton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clinton$156,909
- 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.
- Clinton16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Clinton8
Zip codes with a Clinton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clinton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.