Danvers, Illinois.
Typical home $242,700 (+3.1% in a year). Bloomington, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$695 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,261 +3%
- $235,439$242,700 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,270 +38%
- $175,430$242,700 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.
- Danvers$1,274
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Danvers, IL rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Danvers, McLean County, Illinois
Danvers is a village of 1,089 people in McLean County. Half its households earn more than $88,854 a year and half less, against $79,905 across McLean County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in McLean County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Danvers is a small village in McLean County, Illinois, where most homes are lived in by their owners and neighbors tend to know one another. Residents are younger on average than in many small towns, and household incomes run above the county's, with fewer people living below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold and summers warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow over the course of a year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in professional and business services, and in banks, insurance and property. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and a fair number work from home. Across McLean County, some of the largest workplaces are Illinois State University, McLean County USD 5 and the Rivian plant in Normal, and the county has recently seen slightly fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. A short drive away, Miller Park Zoo and Fell Arboretum, a botanical garden, make easy outings, and Hancock Stadium is close by as well. For a longer day out, the Peoria Zoo is a longer drive away, and the Mackinaw River offers a stretch of water for those willing to go a little farther.
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- 401households
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McLean County had 87,006 jobs in 2025, 2.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bloomington 5W weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in McLean County
- Rivian Motorway (Normal, Illinois)Assembly plants, light trucks on chassis of own manufacture5,309
- Illinois State UniversityUniversity or college3,570
- McLean County USD 5School district1,988FTE
- City of BloomingtonParks, nature1,113
- Carle Bromenn Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,030FTE
- St. Joseph Medical CenterGeneral hospital843FTE
- FerreroChocolate bars made from cocoa beans678
- Bloomington SD 87School district565FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 144 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 28,686 people in all across the county; Danvers has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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 wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Danvers’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 McLean County and the Bloomington, IL metro.
Danvers home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Danvers$242,700
- 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 Danvers address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Danvers — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.