Georgetown, Illinois.
Typical home $100,519 (-3.2% in a year). Danville, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$269 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,362 -3%
- $103,881$100,519 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $22,735 +29%
- $77,784$100,519 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.
- Georgetown$528
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Georgetown, IL fell 3.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Georgetown, Vermilion County, Illinois
Georgetown is a city of 3,143 people in Vermilion County. Half its households earn more than $58,182 a year and half less, against $56,877 across Vermilion County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Georgetown is a small Illinois city in Vermilion County, with a population that is small enough for people to know one another. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and homes here cost less than in much of the country. Household incomes run a little above the county's, though a noticeable part of residents live below the poverty line, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and some snow, while summers turn warm, and rain and melted snow arrive steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and other services also employing many. Across Vermilion County, some of the largest workplaces are the Veterans Health Administration, Danville CCSD Schools and McLane. The county has fewer jobs than a year earlier, and unemployment there is lower than it was a year ago. A typical commute is fairly long, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Vermilion River, the Salt Fork Vermilion River and the Middle Fork Vermilion River are all a short drive away, good for time by the water. Forest Glen Preserve, a protected area, is also a short drive away and suits a walk through the woods. For a longer outing, Kickapoo State Recreation Area is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 1,256households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 14%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 35° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 63°. About 19 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Perrysville Wnw weather station, 10 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; Georgetown has one 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
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Georgetown’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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.
Georgetown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Georgetown$100,519
- 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.
- Georgetown16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Georgetown6
Zip codes with a Georgetown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Georgetown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.