Genoa, Illinois.
Typical home $316,570 (+5.7% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$933 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,944 +6%
- $299,626$316,570 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $87,325 +38%
- $229,245$316,570 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.
- Genoa$1,662
- 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 Genoa, IL rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Genoa, DeKalb County, Illinois
Genoa is a city of 5,298 people in DeKalb County. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in DeKalb County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Genoa is a small city in DeKalb County, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes here run a little below the county's, and a four-year degree is less common among adults than in many places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and the year is fairly wet.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, the building trades, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Genoa are the Genoa Kingston school district, Custom Aluminum Products and the City of Genoa Police Department. The typical commute is fairly long, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. The East Branch South Branch Kishwaukee River and Owens Creek are both a short drive away, and make for time by the water. A longer drive brings you to the Egyptian Theatre in DeKalb, and to the Illinois Railway Museum, one of the best places in the area for anyone curious about trains.
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- 2,200households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. DeKalb County had 36,506 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 33 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the De Kalb weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Genoa
- Genoa Kingston CUSD 424School district293FTE
- Custom Aluminum ProductsAluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum200
- 00W001 Polar Tech IndustriesFoam polystyrene products manufacturing62
- City of Genoa - Police DepartmentPolice departments30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 292 people in all. School districts come 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Genoa’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 DeKalb County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Genoa home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Genoa$316,570
- 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 Genoa listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Genoa29.28%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Genoa21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Genoa8
Zip codes with a Genoa address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Genoa — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.