Herscher, Illinois.
Typical home $238,391 (+8.3% in a year). Kankakee, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$682 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,332 +8%
- $220,059$238,391 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,335 +35%
- $177,056$238,391 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.
- Herscher$1,251
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Herscher, IL rose 8.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Herscher, Kankakee County, Illinois
Herscher is a village of 1,521 people in Kankakee County. Half its households earn more than $91,667 a year and half less, against $71,281 across Kankakee County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Kankakee County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Herscher is a small village in Kankakee County, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run well above the county's, and a smaller share of people live below the poverty line than a figure like that might suggest for many rural places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities also employing many. A typical commute is a moderate drive, and some people work from home. Across Kankakee County, the largest workplaces include Riverside Medical Center, CSL Behring and Kankakee Schools.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Kankakee River State Park is a protected area along the Kankakee River, a longer drive away. Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie is another protected area a longer drive away, set aside to restore native prairie. For a different kind of outing, Chicagoland Speedway is a race track, also a longer drive away.
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- 486households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kankakee County had 41,919 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 21 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kankakee Metro Wastewater weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kankakee County
- Riverside Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,013FTE
- CSL BehringPlasmas manufacturing1,623
- Kankakee SD 111School district839FTE
- Olivet Nazarene UniversityUniversity or college751
- County of KankakeeCity or county courts436
- Bourbonnais SD 53School district435FTE
- Presence St. Marys HospitalGeneral hospital413FTE
- Nucor Steel KankakeeRounds, tube, steel, made in iron and steel mills405
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 114 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 16,261 people in all across the county; Herscher has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Herscher’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 Kankakee County and the Kankakee, IL metro.
Herscher home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Herscher$238,391
- 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.
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.
- Herscher5
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Herscher address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Herscher — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.