Delavan, Illinois.
Typical home $131,034 (+1.5% in a year). Peoria, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$369 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,920 +1%
- $129,114$131,034 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,342 +30%
- $100,692$131,034 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.
- Delavan$688
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Delavan, IL rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Delavan, Tazewell County, Illinois
Delavan is a city of 1,568 people in Tazewell County. Half its households earn more than $62,841 a year and half less, against $77,982 across Tazewell County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Tazewell County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Delavan is a small city in Tazewell County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Household incomes run below the county's, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with restaurants, hotels and entertainment, manufacturing and the building trades also well represented. Across Tazewell County, some of the largest workplaces are Illinois Central College, Morton CUSD and Boyd Gaming. Commutes are fairly long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Little Mackinaw River is a short drive away, and the Mackinaw River is a longer drive. Also a longer drive away is Sand Ridge State Forest, a protected area, and the Peoria Zoo is another longer trip for a day out.
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- 639households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tazewell County had 46,709 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 13 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mason City 4SE weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tazewell County
- Morton Parts Distribution CenterMining machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers1,625
- Illinois Central CollegeTwo-year college868
- Help At HomeHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical792
- Morton CUSD 709School district619FTE
- Boyd GamingHotel casino438
- Pekin PSD 108School district408FTE
- Morton IndustriesMachine shops388
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters376
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 162 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 18,253 people in all across the county; Delavan has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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 wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Delavan’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 Tazewell County and the Peoria, IL metro.
Delavan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Delavan$131,034
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Delavan6
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Delavan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Delavan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.