Limestone, Illinois.
Typical home $240,383 (+7.0% in a year). Kankakee, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$706 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,624 +7%
- $224,759$240,383 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,304 +37%
- $175,080$240,383 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.
- Limestone$1,262
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Limestone, IL rose 7.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Limestone, Kankakee County, Illinois
Limestone is a village of 1,558 people in Kankakee County. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% 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 people in Kankakee 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Limestone is a small village in Kankakee County, Illinois, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Few residents live below the poverty line, and typical home values sit in a middling range for the area. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing, and summers turn warm, with July the warmest month. Snow falls through the winter, and the year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow overall.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Kankakee County, some of the biggest workplaces are Riverside Medical Center, CSL Behring and Kankakee Schools. A fair number of people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one. Job numbers across the county slipped a little last year, though unemployment there has eased since a year ago.
Things to do. Kankakee River State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Rock Creek, a river, is also close by. The Iroquois River, another short drive away, offers more time near the water. For something farther afield, Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 24%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What people in Kankakee County 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, 4 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; Limestone has one 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 floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Limestone’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 Kankakee County and the Kankakee, IL metro.
Limestone home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Limestone$240,383
- 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 Limestone address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Limestone — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.