Kenney, Illinois.
Typical home $144,560 (+8.1% in a year). Lincoln, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$100 (+15%) since Oct 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $10,779 +8%
- $133,781$144,560 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.
- Kenney$759
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Kenney, IL rose 8.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kenney, De Witt County, Illinois
Kenney is a village of 311 people in De Witt County. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in De Witt County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in De Witt County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kenney is a very small village in De Witt County, with a population that fills only a handful of streets. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, far more than is typical across the country, and the village has a low share of residents living below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and a modest number work from home. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while July brings warm summer days and the year is moderately wet.
Work. Residents of Kenney work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, banks, insurance and property, and shops. Across De Witt County, some of the largest workplaces are Constellation, which generates nuclear power, the Clinton school district, and Warner Hospital and Health Services. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county had slightly more jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. The closest outdoor option is Weldon Springs State Park, a protected area a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Robert Allerton Park, a botanical garden, and to Clinton Lake, a reservoir. Scovill Zoo is also a longer drive from the village.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 13%work from home
What people in De Witt County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. De Witt County had 5,070 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 19 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lincoln weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in De Witt County
- ConstellationElectric power generation, nuclear586
- Clinton CUSD 15School district351FTE
- Altorfer Inc. - Clinton, IL - 9670 Tabor RoadCommercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance services129
- Goldwater Care ClintonSkilled nursing facilities125
- Haven of Farmer CitySkilled nursing facilities98
- Warner Hospital and Health ServicesCritical access hospital93FTE
- Blue Ridge CUSD 18School district85FTE
- Bayer Illinois Production CoSupport activities for crop production62
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,769 people in all across the county; Kenney 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kenney’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 De Witt County and the Lincoln, IL metro.
Kenney home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kenney$144,560
- 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 Kenney address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kenney — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.