Naplate, Illinois.
Typical home $154,990 (+9.2% in a year). Ottawa, IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$468 (+136%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $13,012 +9%
- $141,978$154,990 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,998 +44%
- $107,992$154,990 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.
- Naplate$814
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Naplate, IL rose 9.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Naplate, LaSalle County, Illinois
Naplate is a village of 412 people in LaSalle County. Half its households earn more than $71,875 a year and half less, against $73,045 across LaSalle County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Naplate is a small village in LaSalle County, home to far fewer people than most towns on this site. Residents are somewhat older than the typical American, and household incomes sit a little below the county's. Homes here are modestly priced, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with snow most years, and summers turn warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Most residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, or in shops. The commute is fairly short, and very few people work from home. Across LaSalle County, jobs have slipped over the past year and unemployment has eased since a year ago. Among the county's largest workplaces are Constellation, which generates nuclear power, Ottawa Regional Hospital & Healthcar, and James Hardie Building Products in Peru.
Things to do. The Fox River runs in or beside town, and Buffalo Rock State Park, a protected area, is also in or beside town. A short drive away is Starved Rock State Park, one of the best known protected areas in the state. Matthiessen State Park, another protected area, is also a short drive away.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 4%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 31° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 64°. About 24 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ottawa 5SW weather station, 2 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; Naplate 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 wavesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Naplate’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 LaSalle County and the Ottawa, IL metro.
Naplate home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Naplate$154,990
- 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 Naplate address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Naplate — 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.