Lyndon, Illinois.
Typical home $125,942 (+2.0% in a year). Sterling, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $42 (-6%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $2,530 +2%
- $123,412$125,942 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.
- Lyndon$661
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Lyndon, IL rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lyndon, Whiteside County, Illinois
Lyndon is a village of 537 people in Whiteside County. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Whiteside County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 4.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lyndon is a very small village in Whiteside County, Illinois, where almost every home is lived in by its owners. Typical home values are modest, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect for a place this size. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm in July and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in wholesale, and in shops. Few people work from home, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than in many places. Unemployment across Whiteside County has eased over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Among the county's largest workplaces are CGH Medical Center, Wahl Clipper and Sterling CUSD 5.
Things to do. Prophetstown State Recreation Area, a protected area, and Morrison-Rockwood State Park are both a short drive away, as is Lake Carlton, a lake. A longer drive brings you to the Wapsipinicon River, a river, and to the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home, another protected area.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Whiteside County had 20,285 jobs in 2025, 4.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 32 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Morrison weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Whiteside County
- HALO Branded SolutionsGeneral merchandise, durable goods, merchant wholesalers2,463
- CGH Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,213FTE
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage1,020
- Wahl ClipperHair clippers for human use, electric, manufacturing787
- Sterling CUSD 5School district540FTE
- Diamond Drives449
- CGH Medical CenterFamily physicians' offices380
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters340
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 75 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,621 people in all across the county; Lyndon has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Lyndon’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 Whiteside County and the Sterling, IL metro.
Lyndon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lyndon$125,942
- 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 Lyndon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lyndon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.