Danforth, Illinois.
Typical home $179,857 (-1.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$296 (+46%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $2,118 -1%
- $181,975$179,857 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.
- Danforth$944
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Danforth, IL fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Danforth, Iroquois County, Illinois
Danforth is a village of 594 people in Iroquois County. Half its households earn more than $54,625 a year and half less, against $66,255 across Iroquois County. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% 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 people in Iroquois 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Danforth is a small village in Iroquois County, home to far fewer people than most towns and almost all of them in homes they own. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly hot by July, with plenty of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Iroquois County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Prairieview Lutheran Homes and the Central school district. Few people work from home, and the typical trip to work is long, so many residents travel some distance for a job. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year earlier, though there are fewer jobs in the county than there were.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor options are all a longer drive away. The Iroquois River is the best known, and Kankakee River State Park, a protected area, is a good choice for a day outside. J C Murphey Lake, a reservoir, is another place to head for water and quiet.
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- 231households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 32 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Iroquois County 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 35° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 63°. About 25 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Piper City weather station, 12 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; Danforth has one 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Danforth’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.
Danforth home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Danforth$179,857
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Danforth address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Danforth — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.