Lostant, Illinois.
Typical home $178,839 (+1.6% in a year). Ottawa, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$503 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,770 +2%
- $176,070$178,839 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,872 +29%
- $138,967$178,839 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.
- Lostant$939
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Lostant, IL rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lostant, LaSalle County, Illinois
Lostant is a village of 423 people in LaSalle County. Half its households earn more than $65,417 a year and half less, against $73,045 across LaSalle County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in LaSalle County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lostant is a small village in LaSalle County, home to fewer people than most towns of any size. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, a larger share than you would expect in many places, and typical home values sit at a level many households can reach. Household incomes run below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in much of the country. Winters are cold, with January highs hovering around freezing, and summers turn warm, with plenty of snow in winter and steady rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and the building trades. A typical commute is a fairly long one, and only a small number of people work from home. Across LaSalle County, some of the biggest workplaces are Constellation, a nuclear power generator, along with OSF Saint Elizabeth Medical Center and Ottawa Regional Hospital & Healthcare. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Starved Rock State Park is the best known of the nearby places, a protected area a longer drive away. Matthiessen State Park is another protected area, also a longer drive from town. The Fox River is a river a longer drive away, and it suits an afternoon spent by the water.
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- 171households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. LaSalle County had 38,720 jobs in 2025, 1.3% 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 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, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in LaSalle County
- ConstellationElectric power generation, nuclear684
- OSF Saint Elizabeth Medical Center SEMC614
- Ottawa Regional Hospital & HealthcarGeneral hospital561FTE
- James Hardie Building Products, PeruConcrete products, precast, manufacturing450
- PetSmart, Inc. 0036General warehousing and storage426
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters390
- Illinois Valley Community CollegeTwo-year college351
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters326
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 117 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,309 people in all across the county; Lostant has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lostant’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 LaSalle County and the Ottawa, IL metro.
Lostant home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lostant$178,839
- 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 Lostant address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lostant — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.