Creston, Illinois.
Typical home $234,434 (+11.3% in a year). Rochelle, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$188 (+18%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $23,852 +11%
- $210,582$234,434 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.
- Creston$1,230
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Creston, IL rose 11.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Creston, Ogle County, Illinois
Creston is a village of 627 people in Ogle County. Half its households earn more than $66,667 a year and half less, against $82,132 across Ogle County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Creston is a small village in Ogle County, home to far fewer people than most towns in Illinois. Household incomes here sit below the county's, and homes are priced at a level many buyers would find within reach. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehousing. Across Ogle County, some of the largest workplaces are Rochelle Foods, Constellation and Rochelle Community Hospital. The commute is fairly long for many, and a small number of people work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though the county had fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. Rochelle Railroad Park is a park a short drive away, and makes an easy outing close to home. Farther afield, Lowden State Park is a protected area along the river, and Ellwood House is a museum that is a longer drive away. Anderson Japanese Gardens, a botanical garden, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 218households
- 9%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 9%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, 5 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 across the county; Creston 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Creston’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 Ogle County and the Rochelle, IL metro.
Creston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Creston$234,434
- 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 Creston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Creston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.