Harmon, Illinois.
Typical home $211,396 (+5.7% in a year). Dixon, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$434 (+64%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $11,490 +6%
- $199,906$211,396 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.
- Harmon$1,110
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Harmon, IL rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Harmon, Lee County, Illinois
Harmon is a village of 111 people in Lee County. Unemployment in Lee County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lee County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Harmon is a very small village in Lee County, Illinois, where most people know one another. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall fairly steadily through the year, so the seasons tend to set the rhythm of daily life.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Lee County, unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, and jobs edged up over the past year. A typical commute is a drive of some length, so many people plan their days around getting to work.
Things to do. The Sinnissippi Mounds, an archaeological site, lie a short drive away and offer a look at the area's long human history. The John Deere House and Shop, a museum, is also a short drive away. White Pines Forest State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away for those willing to travel further for open woods and trails.
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- 34 mintypical commute
What people in Lee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lee County had 12,642 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 64°. About 31 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dixon 1W weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lee County
- Katherine Shaw Bethea HospitalGeneral hospital716FTE
- Crest Foods CoContract packaging713
- Department of CorrectionsCorrectional institutions563
- Raynor Garage DoorsGarage doors, metal, manufacturing536
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters334
- Help At HomeHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical314
- Dixon USD 170School district312FTE
- Sewer Equipment Co. of AmericaDraglines, crawler, manufacturing310
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 39 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,409 people in all across the county; Harmon has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Harmon’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 Lee County and the Dixon, IL metro.
Harmon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Harmon$211,396
- 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 Harmon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Harmon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.