Hanover, Illinois.
Typical home $114,078 (-4.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$164 (+38%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $5,929 -5%
- $120,007$114,078 since Sep 2025
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.
- Hanover$599
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Hanover, IL fell 4.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hanover, Jo Daviess County, Illinois
Hanover is a village of 863 people in Jo Daviess County. Half its households earn more than $42,250 a year and half less, against $73,993 across Jo Daviess County; 22% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Jo Daviess County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in restaurants and hotels, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hanover is a small village in Jo Daviess County, in the far northwest corner of Illinois. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, though household incomes run well below the county's, and more residents live below the poverty line than is typical. Homes are modestly priced, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are colder and snowier than in most of the country, and July is warm.
Work. Residents work mainly in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, and in shops. Across Jo Daviess County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, CVR Energy and Midwest Medical Center. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs than the year before. The typical commute is a longer one than many people face, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The Wapello Land & Water Reserve, a protected area, is in or beside town. A short drive away are Mississippi Palisades State Park, a protected area, and the Apple River, and Apple River Fort, a museum, is also close by. For a day of skiing, Chestnut Mountain is a ski area a short drive away.
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- 415households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jo Daviess County had 7,551 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 30 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elizabeth weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jo Daviess County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters235
- CVR EnergyNitrogenous fertilizer materials manufacturing152
- Crescent Electric Supply CoMotors, electric, merchant wholesalers151
- Galena USD 120School district145FTE
- Midwest Medical CenterCritical access hospital119FTE
- Stockton CUSD 206School district101FTE
- Brewster CheeseCheese, natural, manufacturing99
- River Ridge CUSD 210School district95FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,190 people in all across the county; Hanover has none of its own. School districts come 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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hanover’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 Jo Daviess County.
Hanover home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hanover$114,078
- 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.
- Hanover9
Zip codes with a Hanover address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hanover — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.