Flanagan, Illinois.
Typical home $158,907 (+11.0% in a year). Pontiac, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$480 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,738 +11%
- $143,169$158,907 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,293 +48%
- $107,614$158,907 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.
- Flanagan$834
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Flanagan, IL rose 11.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Flanagan, Livingston County, Illinois
Flanagan is a village of 1,010 people in Livingston County. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Livingston County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Livingston County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Flanagan is a small village in Livingston County, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the typical home is valued well below what is common across much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly warm in July. Snow is regular through the cold months, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing many. Across Livingston County, some of the largest workplaces are Vactor Manufacturing, which assembles heavy trucks, OSF Healthcare, a general hospital, and Pontiac Correctional Center. The typical commute is a fairly short one, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many towns.
Things to do. Nearby outdoor spots include Rooks Creek, a river, and Lake Bloomington, a reservoir, both a longer drive away. For a day out, Miller Park Zoo is also a longer drive away, as is Fell Arboretum, a botanical garden. All of these call for a bit of travel from the village itself.
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- 411households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
What people in Livingston County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Livingston County had 13,918 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 22 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Minonk weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Livingston County
- Pontiac FacilityDiesel and semidiesel engines manufacturing918
- Vactor ManufacturingHeavy trucks assembling on purchased chassis765
- Pontiac Correctional CenterCorrectional institutions458
- OSF Healthcare SJJWAMCHospitals, general medical and surgical383
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters332
- DWT - Aldi329
- WilliamIntellectual and developmental disability facilities, residential279
- Livingston CountyGovernment base facilities operation support services278
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 45 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,548 people in all across the county; Flanagan has one of its own. 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 windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Flanagan’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 Livingston County and the Pontiac, IL metro.
Flanagan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Flanagan$158,907
- 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.
- Flanagan7
Zip codes with a Flanagan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Flanagan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.