Long Point, Illinois.
Typical home $174,707 (+16.2% in a year). Pontiac, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$437 (+91%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $24,372 +16%
- $150,335$174,707 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.
- Long Point$917
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Long Point, IL rose 16.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Long Point, Livingston County, Illinois
Long Point is a village of 204 people in Livingston County. Half its households earn more than $66,250 a year and half less, against $73,790 across Livingston County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Livingston County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Livingston 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Long Point is a small Illinois village in Livingston County, and it is a place where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Incomes in town run below the county's, and the typical home is modestly priced. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, and snow is a regular part of the season. Summers turn warm, and July is the hottest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Livingston County, the largest workplaces include Pontiac Facility, which makes diesel engines, Vactor Manufacturing, which assembles heavy trucks, and OSF Healthcare SJJWAMC, a general hospital. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. Starved Rock State Park, one of the best known protected areas in the region, is a longer drive away and a natural place for a day of walking. Matthiessen State Park is another protected area a longer drive away, and the Fox River offers time by the water. Grand Village of the Illinois, an archaeological site also a longer drive away, gives a look at the area's earlier history.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
What people in Livingston County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Livingston County had 13,918 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more 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 88° and lows near 66°. About 26 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Streator Southeast weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Livingston County
- Pontiac FacilityDiesel and semidiesel engines manufacturing918
- Vactor ManufacturingHeavy trucks assembling on purchased chassis765
- Pontiac Correctional CenterCorrectional institutions458
- OSF Healthcare SJJWAMCHospitals, general medical and surgical383
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters332
- DWT - Aldi329
- WilliamIntellectual and developmental disability facilities, residential279
- Livingston CountyGovernment base facilities operation support services278
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 45 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,548 people in all across the county; Long Point has none of its own. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Long Point’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 Livingston County and the Pontiac, IL metro.
Long Point home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Long Point$174,707
- 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 Long Point address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Long Point — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.