Dixon, Illinois.
Typical home $181,615 (+5.9% in a year), asking rent $1,113 . Dixon, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$517 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,063 +6%
- $171,552$181,615 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,047 +33%
- $136,569$181,615 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.
- Dixon$953
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Dixon, IL rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dixon, Lee County, Illinois
Dixon is a city of 15,274 people in Lee County. Half its households earn more than $59,406 a year and half less, against $70,292 across Lee County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Lee County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dixon is a small city in Lee County, Illinois, with an older population than many places and a good many residents who own the homes they live in. Household incomes run below the county's, and a larger share of people live below the poverty line than you might expect, while a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in much of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Dixon are Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital, Raynor Garage Doors and Dixon USD. The typical commute is fairly short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Sites tied to the city's history sit in or beside town: the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home, a protected historic place, and the John Deere House and Shop, a museum. A short drive away are Lowell Park, Castle Rock State Park and Franklin Creek State Natural Area, good for walking and time outdoors. White Pines Forest State Park is a longer drive away.
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- 5,758households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lee County had 12,642 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 64°. About 31 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dixon 1W weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dixon
- Katherine Shaw Bethea HospitalGeneral hospital716FTE
- Department of CorrectionsCorrectional institutions563
- Raynor Garage DoorsGarage doors, metal, manufacturing536
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters334
- Help At HomeHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical314
- Dixon USD 170School district312FTE
- Sewer Equipment Co. of AmericaDraglines, crawler, manufacturing310
- JmdcIntellectual and developmental disability facilities, residential268
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,591 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Hailrelatively high in parts of DixonRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dixon’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 Lee County and the Dixon, IL metro.
Dixon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dixon$181,615
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Dixon listings, and the typical home goes pending in 11 days — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Dixon32.31%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Dixon11
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dixon71
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dixon25
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Dixon$153,603
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Dixon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dixon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.