De Land, Illinois.
Typical home $177,492 (-4.5% in a year). Champaign-Urbana, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $112 (-11%) since Oct 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $8,341 -4%
- $185,833$177,492 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.
- De Land$932
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in De Land, IL fell 4.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in De Land, Piatt County, Illinois
De Land is a village of 447 people in Piatt County. Unemployment in Piatt County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Piatt County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. De Land is a small village in Piatt County, Illinois, with a population among the smaller in the county. Homes here are priced well below what is typical for many parts of the country, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is usual. Winters are cold, with January highs hovering just above freezing, and summers are warm; rain and melted snow add up across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Piatt County, some of the largest employers are Kirby Hospital, Monticello CUSD 25 and Haven of Bement. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home. The county has added jobs over the past year, and unemployment there has eased compared with a year ago.
Things to do. A short drive away, Robert Allerton Park is a botanical garden with grounds for walking, and the Monticello Railway Museum is a museum devoted to railroading. Shady Rest, a park, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Weldon Springs State Park is a protected area that offers more room to roam.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Piatt County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Piatt County had 3,776 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Champaign Southwest weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Piatt County
- Kirby HospitalCritical access hospital247FTE
- Monticello CUSD 25School district237FTE
- Haven of BementSkilled nursing facilities94
- Central Illinois Manufacturing Co, Cim-Tek FiltrationFilters automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing93
- Niemann Foods76
- Cerro Gordo CUSD 100School district72FTE
- White Construction - ProsperityWind power structure construction62
- Deland-Weldon CUSD 57School district49FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 928 people in all across the county; De Land 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in De Land’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 Piatt County and the Champaign-Urbana, IL metro.
De Land home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- De Land$177,492
- 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 De Land address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls De Land — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.