Compton, Illinois.
Typical home $202,880 (+11.2% in a year). Dixon, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$473 (+80%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $20,488 +11%
- $182,392$202,880 since Sep 2025
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.
- Compton$1,065
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Compton, IL rose 11.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Compton, Lee County, Illinois
Compton is a village of 274 people in Lee County. Unemployment in Lee County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lee County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Compton is a very small village in Lee County, Illinois, the sort of place where neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here are priced modestly, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical across the country. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, and summers turn warm by July.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and restaurants also employing a good share. Across Lee County, some of the largest workplaces are Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital, Crest Foods Co and Raynor Garage Doors. Commutes tend to be long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Bartlett Woods, a protected woodland area, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Shabbona Lake State Park and White Pines Forest State Park, both good for walking and time outdoors. The Egyptian Theatre in DeKalb, a historic theatre, is also a longer drive.
Report a mistake
- 102households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Lee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lee County had 12,642 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more 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 83° and lows near 61°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Compton Northwest weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lee County
- Katherine Shaw Bethea HospitalGeneral hospital716FTE
- Crest Foods CoContract packaging713
- Department of CorrectionsCorrectional institutions563
- Raynor Garage DoorsGarage doors, metal, manufacturing536
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters334
- Help At HomeHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical314
- Dixon USD 170School district312FTE
- Sewer Equipment Co. of AmericaDraglines, crawler, manufacturing310
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 39 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,409 people in all across the county; Compton has none of its own. 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Compton’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 Lee County and the Dixon, IL metro.
Compton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Compton$202,880
- 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 Compton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Compton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.