Fithian, Illinois.
Typical home $171,529 (+9.7% in a year). Danville, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$487 (+118%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $15,107 +10%
- $156,422$171,529 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,800 +36%
- $125,729$171,529 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.
- Fithian$900
- 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 Fithian, IL rose 9.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fithian, Vermilion County, Illinois
Fithian is a village of 488 people in Vermilion County. Unemployment in Vermilion County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in transport and warehouses, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fithian is a small village in Vermilion County, Illinois, with a population small enough that most people likely know one another by sight. Homes here are valued below what is typical for the country as a whole. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in transport, warehouses and utilities, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in banks, insurance and property. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate drive. Across Vermilion County, some of the largest workplaces are the Veterans Health Administration, Danville CCSD 118 and Help At Home. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The Vermilion River and the Salt Fork Vermilion River are both a short drive away, and Kickapoo State Recreation Area, a protected area, is close by as well. For a longer outing, Krannert Art Museum and the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, a theatre, are a longer drive away.
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- 238households
- 10%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Vermilion County had 25,378 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 65°. About 25 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ogden weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Vermilion County
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,094
- Danville CCSD 118School district890FTE
- Help At HomeHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical695
- Frito LAYBreakfast cereal manufacturing525
- Watchfire Signs (Danville, IL)Manufacturer of electronic signs401
- City of DanvilleExecutive offices, federal, state, and local396
- OSF Sacred Heart Medical CenterGeneral hospital370FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters307
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 79 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,183 people in all across the county; Fithian has none of its own. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fithian’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Vermilion County and the Danville, IL metro.
Fithian home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fithian$171,529
- 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 Fithian address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fithian — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.